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(Code of the Congolese Family, article 45)

– Year, month, day, time, place of birth;

– Child’s sex, surname and given names;

– Ages, surnames, first names, profession and place of residence of the parents and, where appropriate, those of the declarant or the witnesses.

If the day of birth cannot be specified by the declarant or the witnesses, a date of birth is fixed ex officio by the Civil Registrar or by the President of the People’s Court in the village-centre or district.

(Code of the Congolese Family, article 46)

In practice, however, civil registration documents for statistical exploitation have rarely been received by the National Centre for Statistics and Economic Studies (CNSEE) during the past decade. The secondary registration centres are obliged to design forms for registration of vital events (live births, deaths, registered marriages) by sex, age and occupation, which are sent to the main centres for filling.

Exemptions: Public Prosecutor of the People’s Court of the District or District may grant waivers of age for serious reasons (Code of the Congolese Family, article 128).

– An extract from their birth certificate or any act in lieu thereof, issued for less than six months;

– Copies of the acts granting the exemptions provided for by law;

– An act attesting to the payment of the dowry, issued by the persons mentioned in article 141 or a joint declaration of the same persons renouncing the dowry;

– A notary’s certificate in the case of a marriage contract;
– A prenuptial medical certificate.

(Code of the Congolese Family, article 139)

– Name, surname, occupation, date and place of birth, residence of each spouse;

– In the case legal exemptions on age for one of the spouses, consent or authorization given in accordance with the provisions of article 130;

– Option of monogamy or polygamy eventually subscribed by the spouses;

– Payment or not of a dowry under conditions of marriage in accordance with article 141;

– Choice of the matrimonial regime adopted by the future spouses;

– Whether the spouse was ‘divorced’ in the case of a previous marriage, if it is a monogamous marriage;

– Declaration of the contractors to take themselves as spouses and to pronounce their union by the Civil Registrar, or the declaration of the contractors according to which the marriage was celebrated according to the custom, with confirmation of this union by the Civil Registration Officer;

– Name, surname, profession, domicile of the witnesses and, where applicable, the interpreter, and their status as adults.

(Code of the Congolese Family, article 59)

In practice, however, civil registration documents for statistical exploitation have rarely been received by the National Centre for Statistics and Economic Studies (CNSEE) during the past decade. The secondary registration centres are obliged to design forms for registration of vital events (live births, deaths, registered marriages) by sex, age and occupation, which are sent to the main centres for filling.

– Year, month, day, time and place of death;

– Sex, surname and forename, date and place of birth, occupation and domicile of the deceased;

– Surname and forename of the spouse if the deceased was married, widowed or divorced;

– Surname, forename, age, occupation and domicile of the declarant and, if applicable, his or her degree of relationship with the deceased.

Information collected includes ‘as much as one can know’. However, no record of the circumstances of the death shall be given in the registers unless the identity of the corpse remains unknown. In the event of death in a penal or rehabilitation institution, only the place where the death occurred must be indicated.

(Code of the Congolese Family, article 61)

In practice, however, civil registration documents for statistical exploitation have rarely been received by the National Centre for Statistics and Economic Studies (CNSEE) during the past decade. The secondary registration centres are obliged to design forms for registration of vital events (live births, deaths, registered marriages) by sex, age and occupation, which are sent to the main centres for filling.