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06/23/2025

Birth, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act (1886)

Year: 1886

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Documentation

Link to external source: https://pakistancode.gov.pk/english/UY2FqaJw1-apaUY2Fqa-b5c%3D-sg-jjjjjjjjjjjjj
Description

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.

Selected provisions
Section 11 - Persons whose births and deaths are registerable.

(1) The persons whose births and deaths shall, in the first instance, be registerable under this Chapter are the following, namely:—
(a) in [the Provinces], the members of every race, sect, or tribe to which the Indian Succession Act, 1865 (X of 1865), applies, and in respect of which an order under section 332 of that Act is not for the time being in force, and all persons professing the Christian religion;
(b) in [Acceding States], [citizens of Pakistan] being members of a like race, sect, or tribe or professing the Christian religion:
(2) But the [Provincial Government], by notification in the official Gazette, may extend the operation of this Chapter to any other class of persons either generally or in any local area.