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photos: KS - www.kimshawphotography.co.uk | GB - www.georginabalmerphotography.co.uk GB Re•Registration GB 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. GB GB KS GB 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. 20