30. Power to make rules

1. The State Government may with the approval of the central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules** to carry out the purposes of this Act.
2. In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such rules may provide for;
   
   1. the forms of registers of births and deaths required to be kept under this Act;
   2. the period within which and the form and the manner in which information should be given to the registrar under S.8;
   3. the period within which and the manner in which births deaths shall be notified under subsection (1) of S. 10;
   4. the person from whom and the form in which a certificate as to cause of death shall be obtained;
   5. the particulars of which extract may be given under S.12;
   6. the authority which may grant permission for registration of a birth or death under sub-section (2) of S.13;
   7. The fees payable for registration made under S.13;
   8. The submission of reports by the Chief Registrar under sub-section (4) of S.4;
   9. The search of birth and death registrars and the fees payable for such search and for the grant of extracts from the registrars;
   10. The forms in which and the intervals at the which the returns and other records kept by Registrars;
   11. The custody, production and transfer of the registrars ansd other records kept by Registrars;
   12. The correction of errors and the cancellation of entries in the register of births and deaths;
   13. Any other matter which has to be, or may be prescribed.

* [(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after is made3, before the State Legislature]

** Kerala Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 1970 See Kerala Gazette Extra No. 190 dated 1-7- 1970