Civil status records concerning servicemen and seamen of the State are established as stated in the preceding chapters.
However, in the event of war, military operations conducted outside national territory or the stationing of French armed forces on foreign territory, under occupation or pursuant to intergovernmental agreements, these records may also be received by military civil registrars designated by order of the Minister of Defence. The said civil registrars are also competent with regard to non-military personnel when the provisions of the previous chapters are inapplicable.
On national territory, the aforementioned civil registrars may receive records concerning military and non-military personnel, in those parts of the territory where, as a result of mobilisation or siege, the civil registry service is no longer regularly provided.
Declarations of birth in the armed forces are made within ten days of the birth.
Death certificates may be drawn up in the armed forces, even if the civil registrar has been unable to visit the deceased. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 78, they may be drawn up there on the attestation of two declarants.