Civil Registration (Short Birth Certificate) Regulations, 2005
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Registration (Short Birth Certificate Regulations 2005.
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paragraphs: These Regulations shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.
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paragraphs: The Short Birth Certificate Regulations 1953 ( S.I. No. 215 of 1953 ) are revoked.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations “short birth certificate” means, as respects an entry in a register of births or in the Adopted Children Register a certificate of the items set out in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations endorsed in the manner set out in Part II, Part III or Part IV of the said Schedule.
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paragraphs: An tArd-ChlÃ¡raitheoir, a Superintendent Registrar, or a Registrar shall issue a short birth certificate to any applicant on payment of a fee of €8 for each certificate, together with appropriate search fee payable under the Civil Registration (Births and Deaths) (Fees Regulations 2005.
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paragraphs: Where an application for a short birth certificate relates to an entry in a register of births the application shall contain as many as possible of the following particulars: -
(a) the forename and surname
(b) the date and place of birth
(c) the forename and surname of the father
(d) the forename, surname and previous surname of the mother.
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paragraphs: Where an application for a short birth certificate relates to an entry in the Adopted Children Register, the application shall contain as many as possible of the following particulars: -
(a) the forename
(b) the date and country of birth
(c) the name, address and occupation of the adopter or adopters
(d) the date of the adoption order.
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paragraphs: The fact that any of the information specified in Regulation 6 or Regulation 7 of these Regulations is not furnished shall not be a valid reason for an tArd-ChlÃ¡raitheoir, a Superintendent Registrar or a Registrar to refuse to issue a short birth certificate if he is satisfied that the appropriate entry can be identified.
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paragraphs: (1) An tArd-ChlÃ¡raitheoir, a Superintendent Registrar or a Registrar, in compiling a short birth certificate which relates to an entry in a register of births, shall record under “surname”:-
(a) as it appears in the register entry, or
(b) if it appears from the entry in the register that the parents of the child were married to each other, the surname of the father, or
(c) if it appears from the entry in the register that the parents of the child were not married to each other, the surname of the mother, or if the birth was registered on the joint information of the parents, such surname being the surname of either parent given in the entry, as the applicant may request, or
(d) if the surname of the parent does not appear in the entry in the register and the surname of the child does, the surname of the child as given in the entry.
(2) An tArd-ChlÃ¡raitheoir, in compiling a short birth certificate which relates to an entry in the Adopted Children Register, shall record under “surname”:-
(a) as it appears in the register entry, or
(b) the surname of the adopter or adopters as given in the entry.