The Registration Department with its Office of the State Registrar-cum-Head of Notary Services at Panaji, two offices of the District Registrars of North Goa and South Goa and twelve offices of Civil Registrars-cum-Sub Registrars one each in each Taluka basically deals with recording and preserving evidentiary matters relating to contracts, status, testamentary dispositions, etc., of individual citizens, like Property transactions, Firms, Wills, Succession deeds and other types of Documents. Also Societies, Marriage corrections, Appointment of Notaries Marriages, Adoptions, Documents relating to contractual obligations, Issue of Birth & Death Certificates after the implementation of Births & Death Act, 1969, Issue of Marriage Certificates, Land Registration Record copies and similar. The Departmental work deals principally with the formal aspects of the transactions and creates or registers records with the special duty to permanently preserve the same for making authentic certified copies there from in future.