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 where he is not the custodian of the record.
The procedures for this rectification are specified in the same code.
The territorially competent public prosecutor may always arrange for the administrative rectification of purely material errors and omissions in civil status records; to this end, he or she directly gives the appropriate instructions to the custodians of the registers of the erroneous record as well as to those holding the other records tainted by the same error.