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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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PART 1
PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Civil Status Act.

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2. Interpretation

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

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

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

16. Types of marriages

17. Performance of marriage

18. Registration of marriages

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

23. Time restrictions for registration

24. Requirement for certificate of death

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

26. Annual abstract of births and deaths

27. Quarterly transmission of copies of registers

29. General penalty

30. Regulations

30A. Amendment of Schedule

31. Consequential amendment to Civil Code

33. Transitional

22. Information from coroner