Chief Marriage Recorder

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette appoint a Chief Marriage Recorder for the State or designate an officer of the State Government to hold that office. (2) The State Government may also appoint or designate other officers for the purpose of discharging, under the superintendence, direction and control of the Chief Marriage Recorder, such functions as he may from time to time authorize them to discharge. (3) The Chief Marriage Recorder shall be the Chief Executive Authority in the State for carrying into execution the provisions of this Act and the rules or orders made thereunder. He shall be responsible to co-ordinate, unify and supervise the works of recording of the marriages and submit in the month of January every year the annual report of the preceding year on the working of this Act.