law: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
  3. Definitions
  In
  
  this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,-
  
  
  "sign" includes mark, when the person making the mark is unable to write his 
  
  name:
  "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by a rule made 9[***] under this Act: and
  "Registrar
  
  of Births and Deaths" means a Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed
  
  under this Act.