Chapter VII: Cancellation and rectification of civil status records

The rectification of civil status records is ordered by the president of the court. The rectification of the indication of sex and, where applicable, first names is ordered at the request of any person with a variation in genital development or, if he or she is a minor, at the request of his or her legal representatives, if it is medically established that his or her sex does not correspond…

The civil registrar rectifies purely material errors or omissions vitiating the statements and entries made in the margins of the civil status records for which he or she is the custodian and the list of which is laid down by the Code of Civil Procedure. If the error vitiates other civil status records, the civil registrar to whom the matter is referred proceeds to rectify them or has them rectified…

The persons authorised to perform the duties of civil registrars to draw up the acts mentioned in articles 98 to 98-2 may proceed with the administrative rectification of purely material errors and omissions vitiating the statements and mentions affixed to the margin of these acts in accordance with Article 99-1. Persons authorised to perform the duties of civil registrar for the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless…

Any judicial or administrative rectification or annulment of a record is enforceable against everyone from the time it is published in the civil status registers.

Expédition de l’acte ne peut plus être délivrée qu’avec les rectifications ordonnées, à peine de l’amende édictée par l’article 50 of the Civil Code and all damages against the depositary of the registers.