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CIVIL STATUS ACT
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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CIVIL STATUS ACT
ACT
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
(Substituted by Act 10 of 2014)
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 abstract of births and deaths
27. Quarterly transmission of copies of registers
28. Offences
29. General penalty
30. Regulations
30A. Amendment of Schedule
31. Consequential amendment to Civil Code
32. Repeal
33. Transitional
Schedule
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
Civil Status (Fees) Regulations – Section 30 (Statutory Instrument 25/2010)
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Payment of fees
4. Collection of fees
5. Consolidated fund
6. Preparation of documents
7. Exemption
Schedule