law: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
  6. Establishment of general registry offices
  
  and appointment of registrars General
  (1)
  
  Each State Government.
  (a) shall establish a general registry office for keeping such certified
  
  copies of registers of births and deaths registers of births and deaths
  
  registered under this Act, or marriages registered under Act 3 of 18722 (to
  
  provide a form of marriage in certain cases) or the Indian Christian Marriage
  
  Act, 1872 (15 of 1872) or, beyond the local limits of the ordinary original
  
  civil jurisdiction of the High Court of judicature at Bombay, under the Parsi
  
  Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 (15 of 1865), as may be sent to it
  
  under this Act, or under any of the three last mentioned Acts, as amended by
  
  this Act; and
  (b) may appoint to the charge of that office an officer, to be called,
  
  the registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, for the territories
  
  under its administration.