CIVIL REGISTRY LAW

 Civil registration is the system by

which a government records the vital
events (births, marriages, and deaths)
of its citizens and residents. The
primary purpose of civil registration is
to create a legal document that can be
used to establish and protect the
rights of individuals.
What is the importance?
 The only way to count everyone and to track all births and
deaths is through civil registration. Civil
registration provides the basis for individual legal identity
but also allows countries to identify their most pressing
health issues. WHO receives cause-of-death statistics
regularly from about 100 Member States.
 It is used to establish and protect the rights of an
individual.
 To create a data source for the compilation of vital
statistics for legal purposes.
Birth certificate
 Itprovides the first legal recognition of the
child and is generally required for the child
to obtain a birth certificate and as a result
any other legal documents and rights.
Registration of vital events is essential for
accurately calculating birth and death
rates and for accessing the level of infant
mortality.
 Information to be provided for the issuance of Birth Certificate:
 Complete name of the child (first, middle, last)
 Complete name of the father
 Complete maiden name of the mother
 Date of birth (month, day, year)
 Place of birth (city/municipality, province)
 Whether or not registered late. (If registered late, please state the year
when it was registered.
 Complete name and address of the requesting party
 Relationship to the child
 Number of copies needed
 Purpose of the certification
Marriage certificate
 A Marriage Certificate is a document that shows social
union or a legal contract between people that creates
kinship. Such a union, often formalized via a wedding
ceremony, may also be called matrimony. A general
definition of marriage is that it is a social contract
between two individuals that unites their lives legally,
economically and emotionally.
 It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships,
usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety
of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which
it is found. The state of being united to a person of the
opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual,
and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by
and dissolvable only by law.
 Marriage Certificate:
 Complete name of the husband
 Complete name of the wife
 Date of marriage
 Place of marriage
 Complete name and address of the requesting party
 Number of copies needed
 Purpose of the certification
Death certificate

 When someone dies, the death must be

registered with the local or state vital
records office within a matter of days. The
vital records office can then issue copies of
the death certificate, which you may want
or your personal records or to handle a
deceased person's affairs.