law: Indian Christian Marriage Act,1872 
  29. Quarterly returns to Archdeaconry
  Every Clergyman of the
  
  Church of England shall send four times in every year returns in duplicate,
  
  authenticated by his signature, of the entries in the register of marriages
  
  solemnized at any place where he has any spiritual charge, to the Registrar of
  
  the Archdeaconry to which he is subject, or within the limits of which such
  
  place is situate.
  Contents of returns
  Such quarterly returns
  
  shall contain all the entries of marriages contained in the said register from
  
  the first day of January to the thirty-first day of March, from the first day
  
  of April to the thirtieth day of June, from the first day of July to the
  
  thirtieth day of September, and from the first day of October to the thirty
  
  first day of December, of each year, respectively, and shall be sent by such
  
  Clergyman within two weeks from the expiration of each of the quarters above
  
  specified.
  The said Registrar
  
  upon receiving the said returns shall send one copy thereof to the 22[registrar
  
  General of a Births, Deaths and Marriages].