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Section 7, Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980 [S1R-6WS]

As at 7 September 2026. In force from 20 March 1980.

In Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980 [A10-SY5]. This text from 20 April 2008, by Act 79 of 2008 [A11-CVS]. Other texts (1): from 20 March 1980 to 19 April 2008.

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Cite: Section 7, Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980 [S1R-6WS]. Machine: S1R-6WS.

7. Maintenance of records and furnishing of returns.—(1) Every registered priest shall maintain such records and registers relating to the solemnisation of marriages as may be prescribed and shall preserve them for a period of five years. (2) Every registered priest shall furnish to the Registrar General a return in Form II within one hundred and twenty days from the end of every financial year, and such other information as the Registrar General may, by order in writing, require.

Defined terms in this text (1)

prescribed: Section 2, Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980 [S1R6QF] (In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—): "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act

prescribed: 996 more definitions.

Made under this section, or naming it (0)

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Cited by (2)

Section 13, Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980 [S1R-724], 20 March 1980, Band A. "section 7".

Section 2, Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act (Amendment) Act, 2008 [S24-DZR], 20 April 2008, Band A. "section 7 of the Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980 (41 of 1980)".

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Duties published under this section (1)

D11-8CS. Every registered priest: Maintain records and registers of the solemnisation of marriages; preserve for five years; furnish the annual return in Form II; thirty days from the end of every financial year; Form II. Published by Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law and Justice (synthetic record).