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Act No. 83-799 (2 August 1983) amending Law No. 64-374

Act No. 99-691 (14 December 1999) amending Law No. 64-374

Other government departments play a role in civil registration, such as the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health through the issuance of birth or death certificates, and the National Statistical Office.

The officers and civil servants of civil registration services are under the control of the judicial authorities of the Tribunal or of the section of the Court of First Instance of the jurisdiction.

The officers and civil servants of the sub-prefectures are supervised by the general directorate of the territorial administration. The officers and personnel of communes are supervised by the General Directorate of Decentralization and Local Development.

Declarations of birth must be made by the father or mother, one of the parents’ relatives or next of kin, or by any person attending the birth or, if the mother delivered from her home, the person assisting with the delivery.

The cost is increased in the case of a late declaration of the birth, or the parents are obliged to go through the Tribunal for a supplementary judgment.

– Year, month, day, time and place of birth, sex of child and name given to child;

– Names, ages, nationalities, professions and domiciles of the father and mother and, where applicable, those of the declarant.

If the father and mother of the child are not designated to the registrar, no mention is made in the register.

Some civil registration centres, mainly municipalities, have undertaken to link an electronic recording to the manual recording; however, this new mode of registration has no legal basis.

– If the civil registration centre is not computerized, the counting of records is done manually, by month and year for collection periods (2012–2014);

– If the civil registration centre is computerized, the team of the NSI Regional Directorate extracts data from the existing database at the civil register level through requests, and then tabulates these data according to the established framework.

The process of producing vital statistics is confronted with several difficulties, in particular the difficulty of access to civil registers and the lack of collaboration between the various structures in charge of vital statistics.

Act No. 83-799 (2 August 1983) amending Law No. 64-374

Act No. 99-691 (14 December 1999) amending Law No. 64-374

Civil registration is under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior and Decentralization. This Ministry has under its direct supervision the National Identification Office (ONI) responsible for technical issues related to issuance of identity documents.

Other government departments play a role in civil registration, such as the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health through the issuance of birth or death certificates, and the National Statistical Office.

The officers and civil servants of civil registration services are under the control of the judicial authorities of the Tribunal or of the section of the Court of First Instance of the jurisdiction.

The officers and civil servants of the sub-prefectures are supervised by the general directorate of territorial administration. The officers and personnel of communes are supervised by the General Directorate of Decentralization and Local Development.

Exemptions: The prosecutor may grant exemptions for serious reasons (Civil Code, article 1).

Yes, immediately (family record book)

– Forenames, surnames, occupations, ages, dates and place of birth, and residences of spouses;

– Forenames, surnames, professions and domiciles of fathers and mothers;

– Consents or authorizations given in the case of a minority of one or both spouses;

– Forename, surname of spouses;

– Declaration of the contracting parties to take the spouse’s place, and the declaration of their union by the registrar of civil status;

– Forenames, surnames, professions, domiciles of witnesses and their status as adults;

– The possible option of the spouses in favour of the separation of assets, as prescribed by section 27 of Act No. 64-375 (7 October 1964), relating to marriage.

Reference is also made to the celebration of the marriage and the name of the spouse in the margin of the birth certificate of each spouse (article 70).

– If the civil registration centre is not computerized, the counting of records is done manually, by month and year for collection periods (2012–2014);

– If the civil registration centre is computerized, the team of the NSI Regional Directorate extracts data from the existing database at the civil register level through requests, and then tabulates these data according to the established framework.

The process of producing vital statistics is confronted with several difficulties, in particular the difficulty of access to civil registers and the lack of collaboration between the various structures in charge of vital statistics.

Act No. 83-799 (2 August 1983) amending Law No. 64-374

Act No. 99-691 (14 December 1999) amending Law No. 64-374

Civil registration is under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior and Decentralization. This Ministry has under its direct supervision the National Identification Office (ONI) responsible for technical issues related to issuance of identity documents.

Other government departments play a role in civil registration, such as the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health through the issuance of birth or death certificates, and the National Statistical Office.

The officers and civil servants of civil registration services are under the control of the judicial authorities of the Tribunal or of the section of the Court of First Instance of the jurisdiction.

The officers and civil servants of the sub-prefectures are supervised by the general directorate of territorial administration. The officers and personnel of communes are supervised by the General Directorate of Decentralization and Local Development.

The death certificate is drawn up on the declaration of one of the parents of the deceased, or of any person possessing in her or his civil status the information necessary for the declaration.

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

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

– Forenames and surnames, occupation and residence of the parents of the deceased;

– Forenames and surnames, occupation and residence of the spouse(s) if the deceased was married; widowed or divorced;

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

When a child is declared a lifeless child, the declaration is recorded on his or her date on the register of deaths and not on that of births. It merely mentions that he or she was declared a lifeless child without any prejudice as to whether the child had lived or not.