REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS

8.Persons required to register births and deaths.-(1) It shall be the duty of the persons specified below to give or cause to be given, either orally or in writing, according to the best of their knowledge and belief, within such time as may be prescribed, information to the Registrar of the several particulars required to be entered in the forms prescribed by the State Government under sub-section (1) of section 16, -- (a) in respect of births and deaths in a house, whether residential or non-residential, not being any place referred to in clause (b) to (e), the head of the house or, in case more than one household live in the house, the head of the household, the head being the person, who is so recognized by the house or the household, and if he is not present in the house at any time during the period within which the birth or death has to be reported, the nearest relative of the head present in the house, and in the absence of any such person, the oldest adult male person present therein during the said period; (b) in respect of births and deaths in a hospital, health centre, maternity or nursing home or other like institution, the medical officer in charge or any person authorised by him in this behalf; (c) in respect of births and deaths in a jail, the jailer in charge; (d) in respect of births and deaths in a choultry, chattram, hostel, dharmasala, boarding-house, lodginghouse, tavern, barrack, toddy shop or place of public resort, the person in charge thereof; (e) in respect of any new-born child or dead body found deserted in a public place, the headman or other corresponding officer of the village in the case of a village and the officer in charge of the local police station elsewhere: Provided that any person who finds such child or dead body, or in whose charge such child or dead body may be placed, shall notify such fact to the headman or officer aforesaid ;