Information of births

Subject to the provisions of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, and the rules made thereunder, it shall be the duty of the father or the mother of every child born in the municipal area and, in default of the father or the mother, any relation of the child living in the same premises and, in default of such relation, the person having charge of the child, or any Anganwadi worker or the Panchayat or any informant, to give to the best of his or her knowledge or belief, to the Registrar of births and deaths of the municipal area concerned within twenty-one days from the date of birth of the child information containing such particulars as may be prescribed under the said Act or the rules made thereunder: Provided that - (a) in the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall, as father of such child, be required to give information under this Act concerning the birth of such child, and the Registrar shall not enter in the register the name of any person as father of such child, except at the joint request of the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child, and such person shall, in such case, sign the register together with the mother, (b) a person required to give information only in default of some other person shall not be bound to give such information if he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that such information had been given, and (c) in the case of any institutional birth, that is to say, when a child is born in a hospital or nursing home or maternity home, the officer-in-charge of such hospital or nursing home or maternity home, as the case may be, shall report such birth to the concerned Registrar of births and deaths within twenty-one days from the date of birth of the child.