Registration of Births & Deaths Act, 1969 & Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration Act, 1886

This authoritative compendium brings together the Registration of Births & Deaths Act, 1969 and the Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration Act, 1886, annotated with rules, specimen registers and practical guidance for implementation. It covers the legal framework for civil registration (appointment and duties of Registrar-General, Chief Registrars, district registrars and sub-registrars), mandatory notification and reporting procedures (standard reporting period commonly set at 21 days with provisions for delayed registration), certification of cause of death, correction and cancellation of register entries, and penalties for non-compliance. The book explains the relationship between the 1886 Act (earlier framework) and the RBD Act (modern statutory regime), includes standard forms and checklists for hospitals and households, and summarises modernisation efforts — notably the digital Civil Registration System (CRS) used for unified state-level databases and vital statistics. Carefully indexed with headnotes and official citations, this edition is a practical resource for registrar offices, public-health administrators, legal professionals, NGOs and any citizen who needs to understand vital-event registration, documentation and correction procedures.