Section 2. The Central Government needs adequate and accurate countrywide registration data for purposes of nat

2. The Central Government needs adequate and accurate countrywide registration data for purposes of national planning, organising public health and medical activities and developing family planning programmes. Population is one of the most dynamic factors in the present economy of the country but it is here that information on trend furnished by the registration data is very defective and unreliable. The national interest requires an acceptable level of performance by the States and technical uniformity of the methods and standards used in the collection and compilation of data throughout the country. The Government, therefore, consider that in order to develop a sound and unified system of registration in the country, Central legislation is necessary on the subject. 2. Definitions and interpretation . — (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — 1 [(a) "Aadhaar number" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (a) of section 2 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (18 of 2016); (aa) "adoption" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (2) of section 2 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (2 of 2016);] 2[(ab)] "birth" means live-birth or still-birth; 1[(b) "database" means the organised collection of data, generally stored and accessed in electronic form from a computer network;] 3[(ba)] "death" means the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live-birth has taken place; (c) "foetal death" means absence of all evidence of life prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception irrespective of the duration of pregnancy; (d) "live-birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, and each product of such birth is considered live-born; (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (f) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof; (g) "still-birth" means foetal death where a product of conception has attained at least the prescribed period of gestation. (2) Any reference in this Act to any law which is not in force in any area shall, in relation to that area, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area.