Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
No.18 OF 1969
| Contents | |
| Sections | Particulars |
| Chapter I | Preliminary |
| 1 | Short title, extent and commencement |
| 2 | Definitions and interpretation |
| Chapter II | Registration-Establishment |
| 3 | Registrar General, India |
| 4 | Chief Registrar |
| 5 | Registration division |
| 6 | District Registrar |
| 7 | Registrars |
| Chapter III | Registration of Births and Deaths |
| 8 | Persons required to register births and deaths |
| 9 | Special provision regarding births and deaths in a plantation |
| 10 | Duty of certain persons to notify or death births and deaths and to certify cause of death |
| 11 | Informant to sign the register |
| 12 | Extracts of registration entries to be given to informant |
| 13 | Delayed registration of the births and deaths |
| 14 | Registration of name of child |
| 15 | Correction or cancellation of entry in the register of births and deaths |
| Chapter IV | Maintenance of Records and Statistics |
| 16 | Registrars to keep registers in the prescribed form |
| 17 | Search of Births and deaths |
| 18 | Inspection of registration offices |
| 19 | Registrars to send periodical returns to the Chief Registrar for compilation |
| Chapter V | Miscellaneous |
| 20 | Special provision as to registration of births and deaths of citizens outside India |
| 21 | Power of Registrar to obtain information regarding births or death |
| 22 | Powers to give directions |
| 23 | Penalties |
| 24 | Power to compound offences |
| 25 | Sanction for prosecution |
| 26 | Registrars and Sub-Registrars to be demand public servants |
| 27 | Delegation of powers |
| 28 | Protection of action taken in good faith |
| 29 | Act not to be in derogation of Act 6 of 1886 |
| 30 | Power to make rules |
| 31 | Repeal and saving |
| 32 | Power to remove difficulty |
Act to provide for the regulation of registration f births and deaths and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twentieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-