law: Registration Act, 1908
  38. Persons exempt from appearance at registration office
  (1) (a) A person who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable
  
  without risk or serious inconvenience to appear at the registration-office, or
  (b) a person in jail under civil or criminal
  
  process, or
  (c) persons exempt by law from personal
  
  appearance in court, and who would but for the provisions next hereinafter
  
  contained be required to appear in person at the registration-office, shall not
  
  be required so to appear.
  (2) In the case of every such person the registration-officer
  
  shall either himself go to the house of such person, or to the hall in which he
  
  is confined, and examine him or issue a commission for his examination.