Subsection I: Administrative rectification and cancellation

The public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction to carry out the administrative rectification of purely material errors and omissions in civil status records and the annulment of irregularly drawn up records is the public prosecutor for the place where the record containing the initial error or omission or the irregularly drawn up record was drawn up. The public prosecutor for the place where the record containing the initial error or omission…

The Public Prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction shall give instructions to the custodians of the registers of the erroneous or annulled document, as well as to those holding the other documents affected by the same error or drawn up following the erroneous or annulled document. The Public Prosecutor shall inform the person to whom the document relates, his or her legal representative(s) or the person responsible for his or her protection…

The purely material errors or omissions which, pursuant to Article 99-1 of the Civil Code, may be rectified by the civil registrar, are: 1° An error or omission in a civil status record, proof of which is provided by the birth record of the person concerned, his or her parent or any other person named in the record in question, where the birth record is held by a French civil…