Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act : Persons authorized to give notice of death Indian Bare Acts

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act,1886

Act No : 6

Section : Persons authorized to give notice of death

21. Persons authorized to give notice of death. Any of the following persons may give notice of a death, namely:-- (a) any relative of the deceased having knowledge of any of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death; (b) any person present at the death; (c) any person occupying, at the time of the death, any part of the house wherein the death occurred and having knowledge of the deceased having died in the house; (d) any person in attendance during the last illness of the deceased; (e) any person who has seen the body of the deceased after death.