Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
28. Correction of entry in register of births
or deaths
(1)
If it is proved to the satisfaction of a Registrar of births and Deaths that
any entry of a birth or death in any register kept by him under this Act is
erroneous in form or substance, he may, subject to such rules as may be made by
the State Government] with respect to the conditions and circumstances on and
in which errors may be corrected, correct the error by entry in the margin,
without any alteration of the original entry, and shall sign the marginal entry
and add thereto the date of the correction.
(2)
If a certified copy of the entry has already been sent to the Registrar General
of Births, Deaths and marriages, the Registrar of Births and Deaths shall make
and send a separate certified copy of the original erroneous entry and of the
marginal correction therein made.