Registration of name of child or of alteration of name

(1) Subject to the provisions of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, and the rules, if any, made thereunder, when the birth of any child has been registered and the name, if any, by which it was registered, is altered or, if it was registered without a name, when a name is given to it, the parent or the guardian of such child or other person proposing such name to be altered or given within such period as may be prescribed by rules made under the said Act deliver to the Registrar of the area in which the birth was registered, such certificate as hereinafter provided, and the Registrar, upon the receipt of the certificate, shall, without any erasure of the original entry, forthwith enter in the register the name mentioned in the certificate as having been given to the child, shall initial and date such entry. (2) The certificate shall be in such Form as may be provided by rules made under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969.