Section 17:
Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office.
(1) When any Registrar of Births and Deaths to
whom the State Government may direct this section to apply1
, not being a Registrar of Births and Deaths
for a local area in the town of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay is absent, or when his office is temporarily
vacant, any person whom the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages appoints in this behalf,
or, in default of such appointment the Judge of the District Court within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction the Registrars office is situate, or such other officer as the State Government appoints in this
behalf, shall be the Registrar of Births and Deaths during such absence or until the State Government fills
the vacancy.
(2) When any such Registrar of Births and Deaths for a local area in the town of Calcutta, Madras or
Bombay is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Registrar General of
Births, Deaths and Marriages appoints in this behalf shall be the Registrar of Births and Deaths during
such absence or until the State Government fills the vacancy.
(3) The Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages shall report to the State Government all
appointments made by him under this section.
Notes:
1. The section has been declared by the Government of Madras to apply to all Registrars appointed by that Government under section 12, see Mad. R. and O.