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Article 99-1 of the French Civil Code

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…

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Article 99-2 of the French Civil Code

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…

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Article 101 of the French Civil Code

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.

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Article 101-1 of the French Civil Code

Publicity of civil status records is ensured by the issue of full copies or extracts made by civil registrars. The content and conditions for issuing full copies and extracts are set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. The procedure for secure verification of personal data contained in civil status records may be implemented for the purpose of replacing the issue of full copies and extracts, under the conditions laid down…

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Article 101-2 of the French Civil Code

The publicising of civil status records is also ensured by the family record book, the content of which, the rules for updating and the conditions for issuing and securing it are laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. Its model is defined by decree.

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Article 102 of the French Civil Code

The domicile of any French person, as regards the exercise of his civil rights, is at the place where he has his principal establishment. The place of exercise of the civil rights of a person with no stable place of residence is the place where they have elected domicile under the conditions provided for in Article L. 264-1 of the Code de l’action sociale et des familles. Boatmen and other…

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