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Re•Registration
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The law requires that a child’s birth will
have to be registered again when the
natural parents enter into a marriage or civil
partnership after the birth of their child.
This procedure is knows as re-registration.
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Once the form has been completed and signed you should take or send it via the
post to your local registrar’s office including your marriage certificate and the birth
certificate of your child.
For more than one child you will need to complete a form for each child.
You should then wait to be contacted by your local registration service who will
invite one of you in to complete the details for the new birth record.
There are only two ways in which a birth
can be re-registered the way described
above and where a couple have not been
married but no father’s details were
entered into the original birth registration
and subsequently the couple wish to
include these. If the original birth was registered els ewhere in England or Wales you can still
give the information to your local registrars who will then pass on the details to
the office who hold the original birth entry. Any certificates issued after your child
has been re-registered will be issued from the new entry. If you were married
abroad this process may vary so before doing anything please make contact
with your local register office.
After marriage the parents of the child need
to fill in a form LA1 which is available from
your local registrars or by visiting
www.gov.uk and downloading a copy. After civil partnership, this process is different, the General Register Office
authorises all re-registrations of children born to same sex couples, and
you will need to call and speak to them on 0300 123 1837 (option 1)
to begin the process.
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