The Ministry of Law and Justice on August 11, 2023, notified the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023 further to amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969.
The following has been amended-
•section 4 of the principal Act, after sub-section (4), the (5) The Chief Registrar shall take steps to register births or deaths and maintain a unified database of registered births and deaths at the State level by using the portal as approved by the Registrar General of India and it shall be obligatory upon the Registrars to share the data of registered births and deaths to such database.
(6) Subject to the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 17 and with the prior approval of the State Government, the database of registered births and deaths maintained under sub-section (5) at the State level may, on request, be made available to the authority dealing with other databases at the State level and the authority shall inform action taken, within such period as may be notified from time to time, to the State Government:
Provided that the preparation or maintenance of database relating to electoral rolls shall be without prejudice to the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.” sub-sections shall be inserted.
•After section 25 of the principal Act, the 25A. (1) Any person aggrieved by any action or order of,— (i) the Registrar, may prefer an appeal to the District Registrar; or (ii) the District Registrar, may prefer an appeal to the Chief Registrar, within a period of thirty days from the date of such action or receipt of such order, as the case may be, in such form and manner as may be prescribed. (2) The District Registrar or the Chief Registrar, as the case may be, shall decide the appeal referred to in sub-section (1) within a period of ninety days from the date of preferring of such appeal section shall be inserted.
[Notification No. 20 of 2023]
