Any civil status record of French nationals in a foreign country will be valid if it has been received, in accordance with French law, by diplomatic or consular agents. The civil status data is kept by automated processing satisfying the conditions laid down in Article 40 and implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which may issue copies and extracts.
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…
Any contravention of the foregoing articles, on the part of the officials named therein, will be prosecuted before the judicial court, and punishable by a fine of 3 to 30 euros.
Any custodian of the registers shall be civilly liable for any alterations thereto, subject to his recourse, if any, against the authors of the said alterations.
Any alteration, any forgery in civil status records, any registration of these records made on a loose leaf and otherwise than on the registers for this purpose, will give rise to damages from the parties, without prejudice to the penalties laid down in the Penal Code.
The public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction may at any time verify the state of the registers; he or she will draw up a summary report of the verification, denounce any contraventions or offences committed by civil registrars, and request that they be fined.
In all cases where a court of law deals with acts relating to civil status, the interested parties may appeal against the judgment.
Birth declarations are made within five days of the birth, to the local civil registrar. By way of derogation, this time limit is extended to eight days where this is justified by the distance between the place of birth and the place where the civil registrar is located. A Conseil d’Etat decree determines the communes where this paragraph applies. Where a birth has not been declared within the legal time…
The birth of the child will be declared by the father, or, in the absence of the father, by the doctors of medicine or surgery, midwives, health officers or other persons who attended the delivery; and when the mother is delivered outside her home, by the person in whose home she is delivered. The birth certificate will be drawn up immediately.
The birth record will state the day, time and place of birth, the child’s sex, the forenames to be given to him or her, the family name, followed, where applicable, by a mention of the parents’ joint declaration as to the choice made, as well as the forenames, surnames, ages, occupations and residences of the father and mother and, where applicable, those of the declarant. If the child’s father and…
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