30. Power to make rules

(1) The State Government may, with the approval of the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. 

(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such rules may provide for :- 

(a) the forms of registers of births and deaths required to be kept under this Act; 

(b) the period within which and the form and the manner in which information should be given to the Registrar under section 8; 

(c) the period within which and the manner in which births and deaths shall be notified under sub-section (1) of section 10; 

¹⁵[(d) the form of certificate of the cause of death under sub-    sections (2) and (3) of section 10;

(e) the form and manner in which the certificate of birth or death may be given under section 12;

(f) the authority which may grant permission for registration of a birth or death and the form and manner of production of self- attested document under sub-section (2) of section 13;]

(g) the fees payable for registration made under section 13; 

¹⁶[(ga) the form and manner in which the certificate of birth or death     may be obtained under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 17;

(gb) the form and manner of preferring an appeal under sub-section (1) of section 25A;]

(h) the submission of reports by the Chief Registrar under sub     section (4) of section 4; 

(i) the search of birth and death registers and the fees payable for such search and for the grant of ¹⁷[certificates] extracts from the registers; 

(j) the forms in which and the intervals at which the returns and the statistical report under section 19 shall be furnished and published; 

(k) the custody, production and transfer of the registers and other records kept by Registrars; 

(I) the correction of errors and the cancellation of entries in the register of births and deaths; 

(m) any other matter which has to be, or may be prescribed 

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15. Clauses (d), (e), (f) substituted by Act 20 of 2023 w.e.f. 01.10.2023. Prior to substitution it read as
    “(d) the person from whom and the form in which a certificate as to cause of death shall be obtained; 
     (e) the particulars of which extract may be given under section 12;
     (f) the authority which may grant permission for registration of a birth or death under sub-section (2) of section 13; 
16. Inserted clauses (ga) and (gb) by Act 20 of 2023 w.e.f. 01.10.2023.
17. Substituted for the word “extracts” by Act 20 of 2023 w.e.f. 01.10.2023.