The INDIAN CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE ACT, 1872

MARRIAGE OF INDIAN CHRISTIANS

Section 62: Keeping of register-book and deposit of extracts therefrom with Registrar General.

(1) Every person licensed under section 9shall keep in English, or in the vernacular language in ordinary use in the district or State in which the marriage was solemnized, and in such form as the State Government by which he was licensed may from time to time prescribe, a register-book of all marriages solemnized under this Part in his presence, and shall deposit in the office of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for the territories under the administration of the said State Government, in such form and at such intervals as that Government may prescribe, true and duly authenticated extracts from his register- book of all entries made therein since the last of those intervals.] [Omitted]