Registration Act, 1908
38. Persons exempt from appearance at registration office
(1) (a) A person who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable
without risk or serious inconvenience to appear at the registration-office, or
(b) a person in jail under civil or criminal
process, or
(c) persons exempt by law from personal
appearance in court, and who would but for the provisions next hereinafter
contained be required to appear in person at the registration-office, shall not
be required so to appear.
(2) In the case of every such person the registration-officer
shall either himself go to the house of such person, or to the hall in which he
is confined, and examine him or issue a commission for his examination.