law: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
  6.
  
  District Registrar.-
  (1)
  
  The State Government may appoint a District Registrar for each revenue
  
  district. and such number of Additional District Registrars as it thinks fit
  
  who shall, subject to the general control and direction of the District
  
  Registrar, discharge such functions of the District Registrar as the District
  
  Registrar may, from time to time, authorise them to discharge.
  (2)
  
  The District Registrar shall superintend, subject to the direction of the Chief
  
  Registrar, the registration of births and deaths in the district and shall be
  
  responsible for carrying into execution in the district the provisions of this
  
  Act and the orders of the Chief Registrar issued from time to time for the
  
  purposes of this Act.