3. Registrar-General, India.—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, appoint a person to be known as the Registrar-General, India.
(2) The Central Government may also appoint such other officers with such designations as it thinks
fit for the purpose of discharging under the superintendence and direction of the Registrar-General, such
functions of the Registrar-General under this Act as he may, from time to time, authorise them to
discharge.
(3) The Registrar-General may issue general directions regarding registration of births and deaths in
the territories to which this Act extends, and shall take steps to co-ordinate and unify the activities of
Chief Registrars in the matter of registration of births and deaths and submit to the Central Government
an annual report on the working of this Act in the said territories.
4. Chief Registrar.—(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint
a Chief Registrar for the State.
(2) The State Government may also appoint such other officers with such designations as it thinks fit
for the purpose of discharging, under the superintendence and direction of the Chief Registrar, such of his
functions as he may, from time to time, authorise them to discharge.
(3) The Chief Registrar shall be the chief executive authority in the State for carrying into execution
the provisions of this Act and the rules and orders made thereunder subject to the directions, if any, given
by the State Government.
(4) The Chief Registrar shall take steps, by the issue of suitable instructions or otherwise, to
co-ordinate, unity and supervise the work of registration in the State for securing an efficient system of
registration and shall prepare and submit to the State Government, in such manner and at such intervals as
may be prescribed, a report on the working of this Act in the State along with the statistical report to in
sub-section (2) of section 19.
5. Registration divisions.—The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
divide the territory within the State into such registration divisions as it may think fit and prescribe
different rules for different registration divisions.
6. District Registrar.—(1) The State Government may appoint a District Registrar for each revenue
district and such number of Additional District Registrars as it thinks fit who shall, subject to the general
control and direction of the District Registrar, discharge such functions of the District Registrar as the
District Registrar may, from time to time, authorise them to discharge.
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(2) The District Registrar shall superintend, subject to the direction of the Chief Registrar, the
registration of births and deaths in the district and shall be responsible for carrying into execution in the
district the provisions of this Act and the orders of the Chief Registrar issued from time to time for the
purposes of this Act.
7. Registrars.—(1) The State Government may appoint a Registrar for each local area comprising the
area within the jurisdiction of a municipality, panchayat or other local authority or any other area or a
combination of any two or more of them:
Provided that the State Government may appoint in the case of a municipality, panchayat, or other
local authority, any officer or other employee thereof as a Registrar.
(2) Every Registrar shall, without fee or reward, enter in the register maintained for the purpose all
information given to him under section 8 or section 9 and shall also take steps to inform himself carefully
of every birth and of every death which takes place in his jurisdiction and to ascertain and register the
particulars required to be registered.
(3) Every Registrar shall have an office in the local area for which he is appointed.
(4) Every Registrar shall attend his office for the purpose of registering births and deaths on such days
and at such hours as the Chief Registrar may direct and shall cause to be placed in some conspicuous
place on or near the outer door of the office of the Registrar a board bearing, in the local language, his
name with the addition of Registrar of Births and Deaths for the local area for which he is appointed, and
the days and hours of his attendance.
(5) The Registrar may, with the prior approval of the Chief Registrar, appoint Sub-Registrars and
assign to them any or all of his powers and duties in relation to specified areas within his jurisdiction.