Civil Registration Bill 2003

Public bill · Government · Presented

Modernises Ireland’s system for recording births, stillbirths, adoptions, marriages and deaths, replacing paper registers with a national electronic database and making it easier to register events at any local office. It creates central registers for divorces and marriage annulments, reforms marriage-notification procedures, clarifies responsibilities between national and local authorities, and introduces appeals and correction processes. The changes aim to make certificates and public services more efficient, while allowing approved government bodies to share registration information; adoption records remain restricted.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the reorganisation, modernisation and naming of the system (to be known as the Civil Registration Service or, in the Irish language, an tSeirbhís um Chlárú Sibhialta) of registration of births, stillbirths, adoptions, marriages and deaths (including certain births and deaths occurring outside the State), to provide for the extension of the system to decrees of divorce and decrees of nullity of marriage and for those purposes to revise the law relating to the system, to amend the law relating to marriages and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018