Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act : Searches of lists prepared by Commissioners and grant of

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act,1886

Act No : 6

Section : Searches of lists prepared by Commissioners and grant of certified copies of entries

35. Searches of lists prepared by Commissioners and grant of certified copies of entries.- (1) Subject to the payment of the prescribed fees, the descriptive list or lists of registers or records, or portions of registers or records, delivered by the Commissioners to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages shall be, at all reasonable times, open to inspection by any person applying to inspect it or them, and copies of entries in those registers or records shall be given to all persons applying for them. (2) A copy of an entry given under this section shall be certified by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, or by an officer or person authorized in this behalf by the State Government and shall be admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving the birth, baptism, naming, dedication, death, burial or marriage to which the entry relates. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Subs. by Act 38 of 1920, s. 2 and Sch. I, for the original sub- section (1), 2. Certain words were rep. by the A. O. 1950. 3. The words "or he, as the case may be, "were rep. by the A.O. 1937. 4. Subs. for "G. G. in C." by Act 38 of 1920, s. 2 and Sch. I 16