In all cases where the mention of an act relating to civil status is to be made in the margin of an act already recorded, it will be made ex officio.
The civil registrar who has drawn up or transcribed the act giving rise to the mention will make this mention, within three days, in the registers held by him, and, if the duplicate of the register in which the mention is to be made is at the registry office, he will send a notice to the public prosecutor of his district.
If the record in the margin of which this entry is to be made has been drawn up or transcribed in another commune, the notice will be sent, within three days, to the civil registrar of that commune and he will immediately notify, if the duplicate of the register is at the registry, the public prosecutor of his district.
If the record in the margin of which a mention is to be made has been drawn up or transcribed abroad, the civil registrar who drew up or transcribed the record giving rise to the mention will notify the Minister for Foreign Affairs within three days.
The civil registrars of the communes referred to in the third paragraph of Article 40 are exempt from sending notice of the mention to the registry.