Civil registrars send a birth certificate drawn up in accordance with the provisions of article 11 of decree no. 62-921 of 3 August 1962 amending certain rules relating to civil status records, within forty-eight hours of the birth being declared, to the doctor in charge of the maternal and child protection service in the department in which the parents reside.
They send this doctor a copy of the death certificate for children under the age of six whose parents reside in the department, under the same conditions.