Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
32. Permission to persons having custody of
certain records to send them within one year to Registrar General
If
any person in the territories to which this Act extends] has for the time being
the custody of any register or record of birth, baptism, naming, dedication,
death or burial of any persons of the classes referred to in section 11,
sub-section (1), or of any register or record of marriage of any persons of the
classes to which Act 3 of 1872 or the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 (15
of 1872), or the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 (15 of 1865), applies,
and if such register or record has been made otherwise than in performance of a
duty specially enjoined by the law of the country in which the register or
record was kept, he may, 23[at any time before the first day of
April, 1891] send the register or record to the office of the Registrar General
of births, Deaths and Marriages for the territories within which he resides