(1) This Act may be called the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886; and
(2) It shall come into force on such day1 as the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, directs.
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1The 1st October, 1888, see Gazette of India, 1888, Part I, p. 336.
2Sub-section (3) rep. by Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and the First Schedule.