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CHAPTER FIFTH THE RECTIFICATION OF RECORDS OF CIVIL STATUS

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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CHAPTER FIFTH
THE RECTIFICATION OF RECORDS OF CIVIL STATUS

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    45.   

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      (1)     The Registrar may, on application by an interested party served upon the depositary of the register and other interested parties, order such register to be rectified or such omission to be entered. The Registrar may order any person to be summoned whom he or she deems interested in the application.

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      (2)     The Registrar of Civil Status may rectify a record of civil status as defined under this Code by using the rectification process provided under the Civil Status Act, Cap. 4.02.

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           (Substituted by Acts 34 of 1956 and 8 of 2014)

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    45A.   An Order for a rectification must contain an Order for the inscription of such an Order upon the registers, and no copy of the act rectified can thereafter be delivered without the corrections thus ordered to be made. (Added by Act 34 of 1956 and substituted by Act 8 of 2014)

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    46.   The depositary of a register, on receipt of a copy of the Order for rectification, is bound to inscribe the same on the margin of the register, at the place where the record so rectified appears, or where the record so omitted ought to have been entered, and if there be no margin, then on a sheet of paper which remains annexed to the register. (Substituted by Acts 34 of 1956 and 8 of 2014)

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    47.   A rectification Order cannot, at any time, be set up against those who did not seek it, or who were not duly notified. (Substituted by Act 8 of 2014)

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