The birth certificate as a single document is crucial for a host of services like admission to educational institutions, issue of driving licenses, applying for Aadhar cards or passports, and registration of marriages, and will come into effect from October 1.
The law will provide for the use of the birth certificate as a single document to prove the date and place of birth of a person born on or after the date of commencement of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act 2023 for admission to an educational institution, issuance of driving license, preparation of voters’ list, marriage registration, appointment to a post in the Central or state government or a local body or public sector undertaking or in any statutory or autonomous body under the Central or state government.
The legislation will facilitate the insertion of provisions for digital registration and electronic delivery of certificates of births and deaths for the benefit of the public at large to create national and state-level databases of registered births and deaths.
The law will provide for the issuance of a passport, Aadhaar number and any other purpose as may be determined by the Central government to enhance public convenience and to avoid multiplicity of documents to prove the date and place of birth in the country, according to the statement of objects and reasons of the legislation.
The law provides for change of the ordering authority from a magistrate of first class or presidency magistrate to district magistrate or sub-divisional magistrate or an executive magistrate authorised by the district magistrate in the case of delayed information of any birth or death to the registrar after one year of its occurrence.
