Act Number: 6

Act Name: The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

Year: 1886

Enactment Date: 1886-03-08

Long Title: An Act to provide for the voluntary Registration of certain Births and Deaths, for the establishment of General Registry Offices for keeping Registers of certain Births, Deaths and Marriages, and for certain other purposes.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Home

Section 36: Rules.
    1[36. Rules.2[(1) The State Government, for each State 3 *** may make rules to carry out the purpose of this Act.]
     (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may.—
         (a) fix the fees payable under this Act;
         (b) prescribe the forms required for the purposes of this Act;
         (c) prescribe the time within which, and the mode in which, persons authorised under this Act to give notice of a birth or death to a Registrar of Births and Deaths must give the notice;
          (d) prescribe the evidence of identity to be furnished to a Registrar of Birth and Deaths by persons giving notice of a birth or death in cases where personal attendance before such Registrar is dispensed with;
          (e) prescribe the registers to be kept and the form and manner in which Registrars of Births and Deaths are to register births and deaths under this Act, and the intervals at which they are to send to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages true copies of the entries of births and deaths in the registers kept by them;
         (f) prescribe the conditions and circumstances on and in which Registers of Births and Deaths may correct entries of births and deaths in registers kept by them;
         (g) prescribe the particulars which the descriptive list or lists to be prepared by the Commissioner appointed under Chapter V are to contain, and the manner in which they are to refer to the registers or records, or portions of registers or records, to which they relates; and
         (h) prescribe the custody in which those registers or records are to kept.
     (3) Every power to make rules conferred by this Act is subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication.
     (4) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazette and on such publication shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 9 of 1911, s. 4, for section 36.
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for sub-section (1).
3. The words and "the Central Government for British subjects in Indian States" omitted by the A.O. 1950.
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