law: Indian Christian Marriage Act,1872 
  79. Searches and copies of entries
  Every person
  
  solemnizing a marriage under this Act, and hereby required to register the
  
  same, and, every Marriage Registrar or 42[Registrar General of Births,
  
  Deaths and Marriages] having the custody for the time being of any register of
  
  marriages, or of any certificate, or duplicate, or copies of certificate, under
  
  this Act, shall, on payment of the proper fees, at all reasonable times, allow
  
  searches to be made in such register, or for such certificate, or duplicate or
  
  copies, and give a copy under his hand of any entry in the same.