law: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
  16.Registrars
  
  to keep registers in the prescribed form.-
  (1)
  
  Every Register shall keep in the prescribed form a register of births and
  
  deaths for the registration area or any part thereof in relation to which he
  
  exercises jurisdiction.
  (2) The Chief Registrar shall cause to be printed and supplied a sufficient
  
  number of register books for making entries of births and deaths according to
  
  such forms and instructions as may, from time to time, be prescribed; and a
  
  copy of such forms in the local language shall be posed in some conspicuous place
  
  on or near the outer door of the office of every Registrar.