law: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
  12. Power for State Government to appoint
  
  Registrars for its territories
  The
  
  State Government may appoint, either by name or by virtue of their office, so
  
  many person as it thinks necessary to be Registrars of Births and Deaths for
  
  such local areas within the territories under its administration as it may define
  
  and, if it sees fit, for any class of persons within any part of those
  
  territories.