No: 20 Dated: Aug, 11 2023

Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023

An Act further to amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023.

   (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Throughout the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the word “Registrar-General”, wherever it occurs, the words “Registrar General of India” shall be substituted.