(a) in the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall, as father of such child, be required to give information under this Act concerning the birth or such child, and the Registrar General or Registrar, as the case may be, shall not enter in the register the name of any person as father of such child, unless at the joint request of the mother and of the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child, and such person shall in such case sign the register together with the mother;
(b) a person required to give information only in default of some other person shall not be bound to give such information if he believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that such information had been given;
(c) when a child is born in any hospital, the officer in charge thereof shall be bound to forward forthwith to the Registrar General or Registrar, as the case may be, a report of such birth in such form as the Registrar General may from time to time specify.
Section 366 • The Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
366. Information of births to be given within seven days.
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Section 366
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