2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

ACT

(Acts 9 of 2010 and 10 of 2014)

Act 9 of 2010 .. in force 17 March 2010 (S.I. 24/2010)

Amended by Act 10 of 2014 .. in force 12 May 2014

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1
PRELIMINARY

1.Short title
2.Interpretation

PART 2
ADMINISTRATION

3.Records of civil status and registration districts
4.Registrar, Assistant Registrars, Civil Status Assistants
5.District Registrars
6.Registers of Civil Status
6A.Register of births

PART 3
BIRTHS

7.Notification of births
8.Births to be registered in Saint Lucia
9.Responsibility to apply to register a birth and form of application
10.Timeframe for the registration of the birth of a child
11.Registration of parental details

PART 4
NAME AND CHANGE OF NAME

12.Child's name
13.Application to change child's forename within a year of birth
14.Issuance of updated records of a birth or adoption
15.Change of name by registration of notarial instrument

PART 5
MARRIAGES

16.Types of marriages
17.Performance of marriage
18.Registration of marriages

PART 6
DEATH

19.Death in a house or elsewhere
20.Requisition by Registrar of information concerning death
21.Registration of death on receipt of information under section 19 or 20 and medical certificate
22.Information from coroner
23.Time restrictions for registration
24.Requirement for certificate of death

PART 7
RECTIFICATION OF RECORDS OF CIVIL STATUS

25.Rectification by Registrar
25A.Rectification of a clerical error in a record of civil status
25B.Insertion of a person's name on a Birth Certificate
25C.Change of an entry in a record of civil status
25D.Rectification process
25E.Rectification Order

PART 8
MISCELLANEOUS

26.Annual abstraction of births and deaths
27.Quarterly transmission of copies of registers
28.Offences
29.General penalty
30.Regulations
30A.Amendment of ScheduleB
31.Consequential amendment to Civil Code
32.Repeal of Civil Status Act
33.Transitional
Schedule

AN ACT to provide for the records of civil status and for related matters.

Commencement [17 March 2010]