law: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
  4.
  
  Chief Registrar.-
  (1)
  
  The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a
  
  Chief Registrar for the State.
  (2)The
  
  State Government may also appoint such other officers with such designations as
  
  it thinks fit for the purpose of discharging, under the superintendence and
  
  direction of the Chief Registrar, such of his functions as he may, from time to
  
  time, authorise them to discharge.
  (3)
  
  The Chief Registrar shall be the chief executive authority in the State for
  
  carrying into execution the provisions of this Act and the rules and orders
  
  made there under subject to the directions, if any, given by the State
  
  Government.
  (4)
  
  The Chief Registrar shall take steps, by the issue of suitable instructions or
  
  other wise, to co-ordinate, unify and supervise the work of registration in the
  
  State for securing an efficient system of registration and shall prepare and
  
  submit to the State Government, in such manner and at such intervals as may be
  
  prescribed, a report on the working of this Act in the State along with the
  
  statistical report refereed to in sub-section (2) of section 19.