{
  "id": 123702,
  "title": "Register a birth two years late and you may have to go to courts: Amendments in key law passed by Parliament",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/register-a-birth-two-years-late-and-you-may-have-to-go-to-courts",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-04T09:41:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times",
    "slug": "hindustan-times",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-explainers/parliament-monsoon-session-births-deaths-registrations-bill-2026-lok-sabha-rajya-sabha-what-changes-in-law-101785653552903.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Indian Parliament recently passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which tightens the process for registering births and deaths reported more than two years after the event. The amendment shifts the responsibility of verifying delayed reports to a judicial magistrate of the first class, a judicial officer under the high court, instead of an executive magistrate under the state government. This amendment is the second in three years aimed at modifying the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, which serves as the foundation for various identity records in India.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}