If any register in the custody of a registrar, or before reproduction, has been lost, destroyed or mutilated or has become illegible, in whole or in part, the Registrar General shall be notified forthwith and the register in the custody of a registrar which has been mutilated or become illegible shall be immediately delivered to the Registrar General.

The Registrar General shall cause any such register to be corrected or completed or a new register to be made by any process which he thinks fit, and any such corrected, completed or new register which is duly authenticated by F1... the Registrar General shall be of the same legal force and effect as the original register.