Section 3

The Bill seeks to give legal status to the existing officials in the registration machinery, who are drawn from different departments to look after the registration work in addition to their other normal duties and to bind them in a registration hierarchy with the Registrar-General, India, at the Centre and Chief Registrar at the State, running through District Registrars to the village and town Registrars at the periphery. The provisions of the Bill are built closely around the current registation practices, where experience of their working in several States has shown them to be practicable and efficient. They unify the existing legal and administrative provisions. They are broad enough to permit State variations in operational details as demanded by the particular characteristics of their respective administrations but are specific enough to ensure development of the system so as to secure a minimum of uniformity and comparability in coverage and efficiency. The Bill lays down specific principles, general lines of action and channels of authority but execution is left with the States, and accordingly details of implementation are relegated to rules to be made by the State Governments with the approval of the Central Government so as to secure a minimum uniformity. The Bill also empowers the Central Government to issue directions to State Governments for implementing the provisions of the Bill when enacted.