The Goa Reconstruction of Registers and Records Act, 2005

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    "title": "The Goa Reconstruction of Registers and Records Act, 2005",
    "short_title": "The Goa Reconstruction of Registers and Records Act, 2005",
    "act_number": "(Goa Act 5 of 2005)",
    "act_year": 2005,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
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    "description": "The Goa Reconstruction of Registers and Records Act, 2005",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Chief Registrar\" means an officer authorized by the Government to exercise the powers and performs the duties of the Chief Registrar under this Act;\n(b) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa;\n(c) \"guardian\" means a person having the care of a minor or of his property, or of both his person and property;\n(d) \"minor\" means a person who, under the provisions of the India Majority Act, 1875 (Central Act 9 of 1975), is to be deemed not to have attained his majority;\n(e) \"Official Gazette\" means the Goa Government Gazette;\n(f) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(g) \"Registrar\" means an officer authorized by the Government to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Registrar under this Act;\n(h) \"register\" means:-\n(i) the birth or death register required to be kept and maintained under the Civil Registration Code or the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 (Act 18 of 1969), as the case may be; or\n(ii) the register of marriages or the register of firms, required to be kept and maintained under the relevant laws for the time being in force relating to registration of marriages or firms, as the case may be, or any other register or document kept and maintained under the Registration Act, 1908 (Act 16 of 1908);\n(i) \"spoilt register\" includes any register, document, part register, entry or part of any entry therein which is found, for whatever reasons, to be damaged, destroyed, obliterated, rendered illegible or totally lost so that authentic copies therefrom cannot be issued for evidentiary purposes;",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Reconstruction of spoilt registers and records relating to births and deaths.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Reconstruction of spoilt registers and records relating to marriages, firms or any other register or document under the Registration Act, 1908.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Power to make rules.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Validity.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Repeal and saving.",
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        "Act ID": "goa075",
        "Act Number": "(Goa Act 5 of 2005)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2005",
        "Short Title": "The Goa Reconstruction of Registers and Records Act, 2005",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:44"
}