law: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
  11. Persons whose births and deaths are
  
  registrable
  (1)
  
  the person whose births and deaths shall, in the first instance, be registrable
  
  under this Chapter are the following, namely:-
  (a) in the territories to which this Act extends] the members of every
  
  race, sect or tribe to which the Indian Succession Act, 186512 (10
  
  of 1865) applies, and in respect of which an order under section 332 of that
  
  Act is not for the time being in force, and all persons professing the
  
  Christian religion;
  (2)
  
  But the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, may extend
  
  the operation of this Chapter to any other class of persons either generally or
  
  in any local area.