MOUSE F REPRESENTAYIVE
RECEIVED
DATE: 17 A G_2018.

Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE!
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

3112

PEGISTR \TION UNIT
BALS Wd ASEX SERVIC

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by REP. JULIETTE T, UY

EXPLANATORY NOTE

It is in the bese interest of the State to maintain a functional and reliable civil registration system
that is (1) efficient and responsive to the needs of the Filipino people; and 2) appropriately
aligned with international standards

Through the official registration of births, deaths, marviages and adoption, Filipinos have the
documentary evidence needed to secure recognition of their legal identity, family relationships,
nationality, and all other related civil rights, ‘This recognition is increasingly important in light of
the anticipated acceleration of cross-border movements of Filipinos globally and within the
ASEAN Economie Community

\ functional and reliable civil registration system also facilitates efficient and effective social
services planning and delivery, and produces accurate statistics that are the foundation for
building a modern, efficient and informed public administration system. ‘Thus, it helps realize
human, legal and economic rights as well as provide for social protection, ‘They play a key tole in
realizing good governance from the local to national levels of our government.

This bill secks to mandate a more efficient and locally-responsive system for recording vital
events through simplified procedures and the applic
aims to standardize civil registration procedures to aid the national government, local
government units, and the general public.

ion of appropriate technologies. It also

In view of the foregoing, the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly sought.

Approved,

REP. JULIETTE T. UY
2n District, Misamis Oriental


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGR)
First Regular Session

9
HOUSE BILLNO,_ 8412

Introduced by REP. JULIETTE T. UY

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR A MORE RESPONSIVE CIVIL REGISTRATION SYSTEM.
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representations of the Pbilippines in Congress assembled

Section 1. Short Title.- ‘This Act shall be known as the “Civil Registration Act of 2016”.

Section 2, Declaration of Policy.- ‘The State shall promote and maintain a more responsive
civil registration system, ‘Towards this end, standardization amid modernization of civil
registration procedures is necessary to establish the identity of the individual for administrative
and legal purposes. Moreover, efficient and simplified procedures in recording vital events must
be applied in civil registration for the benelit of the general public

all emb
abroad,

Section 3. Coverage. ‘This law
Philippines and all Filipino citizens

all acts affecting the civil status of persons in the

Section 4, Definition of Terms.

il Registration = refers to the continuous, permanent, universal and compulsory
documentation of occurrence and characteristics of vital events, including any
modifications thereof during the lifetime of a person, namely births, deaths, martiages,
judicial and administrative orders and legal instruments,

b) Civil Register - refers to the various civil registry books where events and judicial
decrees concerning the civil status of persons shall be recorded and kept in the archives
of the Local Civil Registry Office, Philippine Consulates, National Statistics Office, and
Shari'a Distriet/ Circuit Courts

©) Civil Registry Documents - refers to all certificates and documents relating to civil
status of person which are recorded and kept in the archives of the Local Civil Registry
Office, Philippine Consulates, National Statisties Office, and Shari'a Disttict/Circuit
Courts.


it Registrars (PACR) — refers 10 the national

ociation of Civil Registrars of the Philippines.

spine Association of Chi
sional as

©) Civil Registrar General (CRG) - reters to the National Statistician of the Philippine
Statistical Authority (PSA) in his/her ex-offivio capacity, formerly the head of the Office of
the Civil Registrar General (OCRG).

) Philippine Statistical Authority (PSA) ~ refers to the centeal Statistical Authority of
the Republic of the Philippines headed by the National Statistician, formerly known as
the National Statisties Office (NSO).

®) Local Civil Registrar (LCR) - refers to the head of the Local Civil Registry Office
(LCRO).

h) Consul General/Consul/Vice Consul (CG) ~ refers 10 the Consular Officials in
Philippine Consular Offices acting as Registrars of civil registry documents involving
Filipinos in a foreign county.

i) District/Circuit Registrar (D/CR) - refers to the Clerk of a Shari'a Distict/Ci
Court performing civil registration functions with regards to Muslim mastiages, Divorces,
Revocation of Divorces and Conversions under Title V1, Book ‘Two of Presidential
Deeree No.1083, otherwise known as the Code of Muslim Personal Laws

cuit

i) Barangay Registration Agents (BRA) ~ refers wo the Barangay Secretaryor his/hex
authorized representative who ismandated by law to assist in civil registration, particularly
in the compulsory reporting of all occurrences of births, deaths and marriages from all
Barangays of the Philippines using appropriate electronic devies

k) Local Archive Authority (LAA) ~ refers to the LCR or his authorized official of the
LCRO of each Local Government Unit who has the duty to establish, keep and maintain
the local archives, to include its mandatory digitization of all civil registry documents for
the herein provided Digital Linkages and Interconnection of All Pasticipating LCROs.

}) National Civil Registry Database (NERD) ~ refers 10 all digitized civil registry
documents from all LCRO, CG and D/CR officially linked for multilateral benefits.

m) National Security Paper (NSECPA) ~ refers to the Security Paper, printed by a
government printer with overt and covert features, to be exclusively used for all
cettifications from 1CROs using the NCRD digitized archives.

n) Barangay Civil Registration System (BCRS) ~ refers to a strategy to facilitate civil
registration at the barangay level involving all barangay officials assisting the
City/Municipal Civil Registrar (C/MCRs) in civil registration work, as stated in Section
394 (@) (5) R.A. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of the
Philippines.

0) Local Health Authority — refers to the Local Government Department Head of the
City or Municipal Health Office of every Local Government Unit.

p) Legal Instruments - refers to the affidavits/aftirmations pertaining to civil registration,


Section 5. Duties and Functions of the Civil Registrar General (CRG).-The Office of the

Civil Registrar Gencral shall have the following duties and functions:

a) prepare and promulgate the implementing rules and regulations pertaining to civil
registration laws and all subsequent issuances relative thereto, in close collaboration with
the DILG and the PACR;

b) exercise technical supervision over the City/Municipal Civil Registrars (C/MCRs) and
other Local Civil Registry Officers;

1¢ circulars and memoranda pertaining to civil registration enhancements as part of
the functions of the OCRG;

«) provide ways and means to

Archives as the need arises;

©) act as the national central repository of all civil registry documents submitted to the
OCRG for archiving from all civil registry offices of the Philippines, for back up
database and statistical analysis puxposes only; and,

1) implement a mandatory continuing education and training program for C/MCRs to be
conducted once every two years in collaboration with the DILG and PACR.

Civil Registrars for the reconstruction of Local

Section 6, Duties of the City/Municipal Civil Registrar.- ‘he appointment of C/MCRs shall
be mandatory for city and municipal governments.

‘The C/MCR shall be responsible for the civil registration programs in the local government unit
concerned, pursuant to this Act, other existing laws, rules and regulations.

‘The C/MCR shall develop plans and strategies and upon approval thereof by the mayor,
implement the same, particularly those which pertains to civil registry programs and projects

‘The C/MCR shalt
a) As much as practicable, assist in the preparation, accept and register all registrable events

and documents occurring within his or her jurisdiction affecting the civil status of
persons;

b) File registrable certificates and documents presented to him or her for entry;

©) Compile and transmit copies 10 CRG ev
calendar days of the succeeding month;

y document registered within the first ten (10)

d) Issue certified transcripts or copies of any certificate or document registered, upon
payment of the prescribed fees;

sify, digitize, index: and pr
appropriate archiving procedure

ve all registered documents in accordance with the

Administer oaths, free of charge, for civil registry purposes;

g) File, keep and preserve in a secured place the civil registry books as required by law;

h) Receive all registrable documents and transcribe in the corresponding civil register all
documents accepted for registration;


i) Receive applications for the issuance of a marriage license and after determining that the
pp i
requirements
period have been complied with, shall issue the license upon payment of the authorized
fee to the local treasurer;

and supporting certificates and publication thereof for the prescribed

j) Conduct community education campaigns onvital registration and assist in the
preparation of demographics and other statistics for the local government unit
concerned;

k) Recommend to the legislative bodies and collaborate with administrative agencies in the
formulation of systems, procedures, policies, rules and regulations on civil registration;

}) Submit status reports to the CRG on the condition of civil registey documents filed in his
civil registry office whenever there are substantial changes in the status of his files, in
cases of fire, flood, earthquake and other natural and or manmade calamities;

m) Reconstruct destroyed civil registry records upon compliance with the requirements
following the procedures established by the CRG;

n) Make available at all times the eivil registry forms in the civil registry office;
0) Be responsible for the issuance of cettifications as the Local Archive Authority (LAA)
and in the management of the local outlet of National Security Paper (NSECPA) using

the NCRD;

p) Be authorized to solemnize mariage within his or her jurisdictions

q) Exercise quasi judicial functions in all cases involving changes and correetion in the civil
register as provided for by law; and

1) Employ lawful measures to ensure the integrity of the civil register, preserve the same
against any form of corruption pertaining to both its hard copies and digital copies on
file. This endeavor shall pertain not only to the local archives but to the files of its
counterparts in the use of NSECPA in all processes of the NCRD operations,

Section 7. Civil Registry Books - ‘The C/MCRs shall keep and preserve in their offices the
following books: (1) Register of Births; (2) Register of Foundlings; (3) Register of Deaths; (4)
Register of Marriages; (5) Register of Court Decrees or Orders; (6) Register of Legal
Instruments; (7) Register of Applications for Marriage License; (8) Register of Conversion to
Islam; (9) Register of Muslim Divorces; (10) Register of Revocation of Muslim Divorces; (11)
Register of ICCs/IPs Marriage Dissolutions; (12) Register of ICCs/IPs Reve
Dissolutions

Section 8. Registration and Certification of Birth - ‘The declaration of the physician, midwife,
nurse, attendant at birth, or in default thercof, the declaration of either ot both parents or any
petson who has knowledge of the facts of birth of the newborn child shall be sufficient for the
registration of birth in the civil register. The duly accomplished Certificate of Live Birth (COLB)
containing the above declaration shall be submitted for registration to the C/MCR where the
birth occurred within thirty (30) calendar days after the dae of birth by the aforementioned
persons, declaring the following: a.) name of the child; b.) sex; c) date of birth; d.) place of birth;
1.) name of mother; e.) citizenship of the mother; £) name of father; hip of the father;

citize:



h) date and place of martiage of parents; and i) such other data as may be required in the
implementing rules and regulations of this Act.

Birth and other civil registry records of persons not bearing the usual middle initial or middle
name shall have equal acceptability and respect before all government and private transactions
where these documents are presented.

Abandoned children or foundlings, with parents, guardians or selatives being unknown, or a
child committed in an orphanage or charitable institution with unknown facts of birth and
parentage, shall be registered by the finder or charitable institution concerned within thirty (30)
calendar days before the office of the C/MCR after the date of commitment

A person who has not been registered before the office of the C/MCR where he or she was
born within the prescribed period of thirty (30) calendar days shall apply for delayed registration,

A deceased person's bisth may also be registered on a delayed registration basis by his or her
nearest kin,

The informant and affiant must show authentic proof of the identity of the person to be
registered, the facts of his birth, his parentage and other relevant data,

Out-of-town registration of birth may be allowed, where the place of application for registration
is other than the place of birth of the person secking to be registered.

The tecord of a person's birth shall be kept strictly confidential and no information relating
thereto shall be issued except upon request of the following

a) ‘The concerned person himself, or any person authorized by him;

b) His spouse, his parent or parents, his direet descendants, or guardian or institution legally
in-charge of him, if he is a minor;

©) The Court or proper public officials whenever absolutely necessary in administrative,
judicial or other official proceedings to determine the identity of the child’s parents ot
other circumstances surrounding his or her birth; and

4d) Incase of person’s death, the nearest kin,

Section 9.Registration and Certification of Death.- ‘The physician who attended the deceased
or, in his default, the health officer concerned, or in default of the latter, any member of the
family of the deceased, or any per
of the same before the office of the C/MCR of the place of death.

n having knowledge of the death, shall cause the registration

The death certificate which shall be issued by the attending physician of the deceas
default, by the proper health officer shall contain the following data which shall be furnished by
the person reporting the death: a) full name of the deceased; b) ge; d) civil status; e)
nationality; ) date of death; g) place of death; h) full names of the deceased’s parents; i) cause of
death; and j) such other data which may be requited,

d or, in his

Informants shall register the death of a deceased legally married woman using the surname of her
immediate surviving husband.


Registration s
office of the

all be made within thirty (30) calendar days after the time of death before the
C/MCR where the death occurred,

In the absence of the health officer or his authorized representative in the place of registration,
or when it is a non-working day and the health officer or his authorized representative is not
expected to be in his office, the death should be reported within forty-eight (48) hours after its
occurrence by the nearest of kin of the deceased or by any person having knowledge of the death
to the mayor, or to the vice mayor or any member of the Sangguniang Bayan or to the municipal
secretary, who shall issue and sign the medical certification postion of the Certificate of Death
for burial and registration purpose:

When the death is under medico-legal examination, or where the case of death is under
investigation by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) or other investigative agency of the
government and where the body of the deceased is subjected to autopsy ot examination of the
medico-legal officers and the deceased has not been registered in the place of the death, the head
of the NBI or of other investigative agency or his authorized representative shall cause the
registration of such death through the health officer of the city or municipality where the death
occurred,

‘The medico-legal officer shall accomplish and siga the medical certification portion of certificate
of death, subject to the review of the Local Health Authority.

Registration of fetal death shall follow the same procedures in the registration of death,

A deceased person's facts of death that has not been registered within thitty (30) ea
period after the time of death shall be allowed delayed registration before the offi
C/MCR where he died,

ndar days
of the

Out-of-town registration of death may be allowed.

Section 10. Registration of the application for Marriage License.- ‘The local civil re
ned shall. ent plications for marriage licenses filed before his office in the
application for marriage license register strictly in the order in which the same are received. He
shall record in said register the names of the applicants, the date on which the marriage license
was issued, and such other data as may be necessary

cone

Section 11, Application for Marriage License.- All applications for marriage license shall be
governed by the pertinent pros cutive Order No. 209, otherwise known as the
Family Code of the Philippines

isions of

mended,

Section 12, Registration and Certification of Marriage. All solemnizing officers shall send
four (4) copies of the certificate of marriage for registration before the office of the C/MCR
where the marriage took place within fifteen (15) calendar days after an ordinary marriage and
within (30) calendar da empt from license requirement.

for marriages

A person whose marriage has not been regi
for delayed registration,

d within the prescribed period shall be allowed

Out-of town registration of marriage shall be allowed.


Section 13, Multiple Registration. In cases of multiple registrations of birth, marriage and
death, the first duly registered document shall prevail unless the Court orders otherwise

For multiple marriages by and berween same parties, their first marriage shall prevail, not the
first registered marriage of such pasties.

Section 14, Registration of Solemnizing Officers.- All solempizing officers shall be registered
with the CRG, except those who are not required to be so registered as provided by law or
existing mules.

The C/MCRs may a

existence of religious sects.

1 the Local Chief Executive in determining documents pertaining to the

Section 15, Registration of Court Orders. In case a court issues an order concerning the
status of a person, it shall be the duty of the clerk of court (© a uccessful petitioner to
have the onder registered before the C/MCR where the court is functioning,

Wwise the

In the cases where another person may apply to register a court order other than the petitioner
before the office of the C/MCR, the later shall verify if the copy of the order is authentic,
otherwise, he shall deny registration thereof.

‘The local civil registry office where the event of the order was registered shall forward a
certified tue copy of the order to the C/MCR where the event affected was originally
registered. ‘The latter shall make the proper annotations in the document and at the applicable
registry book. He shall likewise send a certified true copy of the annotated document and the
registered court order to the Civil Registrar General,

Each registered document shall be submitted to the Civil Registrar General during the usual
reporting month

All coure orders shall be registered within fifteen (15) days upon its finality, otherwise it shall be
considered as delayed registration.

Al court orders shall be effected through annotations in the civil registry document except in
adoption where the child shall be entitled to the issuance of an amended birth ce:

icate,

tion 16. Registration of Adoption.- After the court decision on adoption cases has become
final and executory, the original birth certificate shall be amended. An amended certificate of live
birth of the adopted shall be issued by the C/MCR where the birth of the adopted child was
recorded. Such certificate of live bisth of an adopted child shall not bear any matk ot annotation
or any indication of the facts of adoption, It shall have the same entries as those appearing in the
otiginal records of birth, except for the following items of information:

a) Name of the adopted - the fixst name of the adopted child shall be the same in the
otiginal certificate .of live birth unless the order of adoption carried an order changing it
to another name. The middle name of the adopted child shall be the
name of the adopter, except when the husband and the wife jointly adopted the child, in
which case, the middle name of the adopted shall be the surname of the adopting
mother,

same as the middle



The surname of the adopted child shall be that of the adopter. If the husband and wife
jointly adopt the child, the adopted child shall use the surname of the adopting father.

b) Names of parents - the name of the natural parents of the adopted child shall be
substituted by the names of the adopting parents, to be indicated in the appropriate
spaces in the certificate of live birth as the father or mother, as the case may be; and.

©) Other information - other information about the adopting parents such as citizenship
and religion shall be indicated in the appropriate spaces of the amended certificate of live
birth. In cases where legally married husband and wife jointly adopt the child, the date
and place of marriage of the adopting parents shall be entered in the appropriate spaces
of the amended certificate of live birth of the adopted child.

@) No amendment or changes in the civil registry books ~in all cases of adoption, no
changes in the civil registry books where the original birth records was duly registered
shall be effected, except for the marginal annotation by virtue of the adoption decree.

In case the adopted child is a foundling, the basis for issuance of an Amended Certificate of Live
Birth shall be the court order.

Section 17, Registration of Presumptive Death. \ judicial order or decree declaring a person
presumably dead for purposes of remarriage shall be registered at the C/MCR where the first
mattiage was registered. Por the purpose of contracting a subsequent marriage, annotation shall
be recorded in the marriage register as well as in the marriage certifi

te.

Section 18, Registration of Foreign Court Orders Decided Abroad.- All foreign court orders
involving civil s f esiding in the Philippines shall be registered before the Loe:
Civil Registry Office where the affected document is registered. These foreign court orders, to be
legal and binding in Philippine jurisdiction, must first be confirmed by the appropriate Regional
“Trial Court which have the lawful jurisdiction over such

Section 19, Registration of Legal Instruments... As a gene
be

fl rule, all legal instruments shall
sgistered in the civil registry of the place where they were executed except the following:

a) Affidavit of reappearance - where the parties to the subsequent marriage are residing
b) Marriage Settlement- where the marriage was recorded;

©) Admission of Paternity, Acknowledgment, Legitimation, Voluntary Timancipation of
Minor, Attificial Insemination - where the bitth of the child was recorded.

All legal instruments executed abroad shall be registered before the Philippine consulate of that
country or at the Local Civil Registry Office where the affected document is registered including
all legal instruments which may be executed in the Philippines

All legal instruments shall be effected through marginal annotations on the civil registry
document and at the appropriate civil register:

Section 20. Registration of Affidavit of Reappearan
circumstances of reappearance of the absentee spouse shall be recorded in the civil registry office
where subsequent marriage of the present spouse was recorded, at the instance of any interested

A sworn statement of the facts and



person, with due notice to the spouses of the subsequent marriage and without prejudice to the
fact of reappearance being judicially determined in cases where such a fact is disputed.

Section 21, Registration of Affidavit of Acknowledgment or Affidavit of Admission of
Paternity. It shall be the duty of parents or parent who executed the affidavit of
acknowledgment to send the original copy to the C/MCR where the birth of the child was
registered for registration in the Register of Legal Instruments and proper annotation in the
Register of Bixths.

Section 22. Registration of Muslim Filipinos, Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and Children in
Need of Special Protection (CNSP).- Muslims Filipinos, IPs and CNSP, by reason of thei
socio-cultural, religious, and indigenous peculiasities shall be registered as follow:

8) Muslim Filipinos- civil registration shall be governed by Presidential Decree 1083,
Executive Order 157, and Administrative Order No.1, Series of 2005;

b) Indigenous Peoples- civil registration shall be governed by Republic Act 8371 and
Administrative Order No.3, Series of 2004.

©) CNSP- civil registration shall folloy the procedures provided under OCRG:
Memorandum Circular 2004-01 and other promulgations by the OCRG in coordination
with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and other concerned
agencies.

Section 23, Barangay Civil Registration System (BCRS).- All clected and/or appointed
barangay officials and employees, shall assist the LCR in eivil registration within their area of
jurisdiction through the BCRS. Continuing training and capacity building shall be conducted by
the PSA, LGUs, PACR, and other accredited government or private institutions, for the
upgtading of the knowledge and skills of all partners in civil registration in the Barangay

Section 24, Civil Registry Documents are Public Documents.- ‘The registry books making
up the civil register, the office files in hard copies and its corresponding, digital files of the
LCROs, cettifications or certified copies from these files and all other documents relating thereto
shall be considered public documents and shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the facts
therein contained. These public documents shall be open to the public, except those documents
which ate to be kept strictly confidential as provided for by law, during office hours and shall be
kept in a secured place which shall be furnish to the civil registrar at the expense ot of the funds
of the local government concerned.

ed to his care
the proper

The civil registrar shall not, under any cixcumstances, permit any document entrus
to be removed from his office, except by lawful order of a court, in which «:
receipt shall be taken,

The civil registrar may issue cettified copies o}
fixed by law or the local ordinance

any document filed, upon payment of proper fe

Section 25. Expenses of the Office of the Civil Registrar.— All expenses in connection with
the establishment and operations of the civil registrar’s office shall be paid out of local funds and
for this purpose, the Sanggunian of municipalities or cities concerned shall make the necessary
approptiations available in the local annual budget

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Section 26. Free Registration of Vital Civil Registry Events.The registration of births,
deaths, marriages and foundlings are hereby declared as a
be collected in the registration of these events, whether or not these are registered on time or
delayed with respect (© their reglementary periods. All supporting documents as prerequisite t©
bisth registration shall also be free

ational Policy, therefore, no fees shall

‘The first copies of civil registration certificates shall be free. For issuance of succeeding copies of
civil registry documents, a standard fee prescribed by the CRG shall be collected.

For registration of Court orders, legal instruments and registeable administrative orders, a
standard fee shall be collected. The local government unit may collect reasonable service fees and
charges by virtue of an Ordinance for the purpose.

Section 27. Penal Provisions- Any person whose duty is to report any fact concerning the civil
status of person
having violated the provisions of this Act shall be punished in accordance with law

ind who knowingly fails to perform such duty, and any person convicted of

Any person who shall knowingly make false statements in the forms furnished and shall present
the same for entry in the civil registers shall be penalized with an imprisonment of not less than
six (6) months nor more than six (6) years or a fine of not less than Ten Thousand Pesos
(Php10,000.00) or both upon the discretion of the Court,

The attending physician, nurse, midwife, hospital administrator, or any person having been
charged to cause the registration of live births attended by them but who knowingly fails ot
withholds the delivery of copies of the certificate/s of live birth to the city or municipal civil
registrar for registration, shall be penalized by imprisonment of not more than six (6) months, ot
by a fine of not more than Five ‘Thousand Pesos (Php 5,000.00), or both, upon the discretion of
the Court,

Any priest or minister solemnizing marriage without being authorized by the Civil Registrar
General or who, upon solemnizing marriage, refuses to exhibit his authority to solemniz
marriage when called upon to do so by the patties or patents, ge
having charge of the parties; or any bishop or officer, priest, or minister of any church, religion
or sect, the regulations and practices whereof require bans or publication previous to the
solemnization of mattiage, who authorized the immediate solemnization of marriage that is
subsequently declared illegal, or any officer, priest or minister solemnizing mat
of the provision of this Act shall be punished with imprisonment of not less than six (6) months
but not to exceed three (3) years, or by a fine not less than Five ‘Thousand Pesos (Php 5,000.00)
nor more than Twenty Thousand Pesos (Php 20,000.00) or the revocation of the authority ro
solemnize marriage, or all three, upon the discretion of the Court,

ndparents, guardians or persons

age in violation

Any officer, priest, or minister who fails to deliver copies of the certificate of marriage to the city
or municipal civil registrar within the period fixed by law shall be punished by imprisonment of
not more than six (6) months, or by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Pesos (Php
5,000.00), or both, at the discretion of the Court.

Section 28. Digital/Electronie Reporting of Births, Deaths and Marriages. — ‘There shall
be a compulsory reporting of all occurrences of Births, Deaths and Marriages from all Barangays
of the Philippines. As Barangay Registration Agents, all Barangay Secretar
representatives are hereby mandated to report these events using appropriate and duly-inspected
secure electronic devices to the LCRO and other government agencies mandated by law to

's ot their authorized

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monitor the status of registration of vital civil registry events and shall assist the subsequent
registration thereof. Continuing skills training televant to Digital/ Electronic Reporting of Births,
Death and Marriages of Barangay Registration Agents shall be provided by the PSA, LGU,
PACK and other accredited government and private institutions and organizations. This training
shall equip Barangay Registration Agents with the knowledge and skil
implement digital electronic civil registration,

s needed to properly

Section 29, Development of National Civil Registry Database (NCRD) Software ~The
National Government thru the National Computer Center in close coordination with the PSA,
the PACR, and the DILG shall develop official software responsive to the NCRD
implementation, Participation and assistance of international and local private organizations
having parallel objectives on the full development of digital civil registration may b
the development of this software, Among other fearures, this software shall include the highest
degree of data security to ensure the integrity of its database.

waght in

Section 30, Digitization of all Civil Registry Files, ~ All vegistered documents in the LCRO
shall be digitized. In addition to the usual reports and forwarding of the printed hard copy files,
digitized files shall also be submitted to the PSA as back up files of the National Civil Registry
Database (NCRD), for digital archiving purposes,

Section 31, Digital Linkages and Interconnection of All Participating LCROs. — All
capable LCROs shall be interconnected to facilitate retrieval, on line certifications, and for local
government revenue generation using LGU-linked NCRD digital files. Participating LCROs are
hereby authorized to issue certifications from NCRD for and in behalf of other LCROs subject
to pertinent laws, rules or regulations on the confidentiality of birth records.

Section 32. Validity and Acceptability of NCRD NSECPA, ~ All documents issued using
NSECPA from NCRD being public documents shall be prima favie of the in contained,
NSECPA shall be presumed valid for all intents and purposes relative to the identity, status,
rights, statistical values and other relevant data pertaining to its document owners, end users and
concerned government agencies. ‘These documents shall be valid without need of authentication
from any agency of government

cts the

Section 33. Income Sharing Among Participating LGUs ~The net income in the issuance of
NSECPA certifications using the NCRD shall be equitably shared by the Issuing CRO and the
LAA LCRO for each document released. The software used for the NCRD processing should
include among others, a feature of automatic electronic debit and credit of income sharing
among LGUs

Section 34. Depository Bank in NCRD Proc
shall be the depository bank for NCRD monetary proce:

‘The Land Bank of the Philippines (I.BP)
ing,

Section 35. Appropriations. There shall be an initial appropriation of One Hundred Pifty
Million Pesos (Php 150,000,000.00) in the General Appropriations Act, which will be included in
the Department of Interior and Local Government’s budget for the initial development of
software and the establishment of the NCRD. All local government units shall likewise provide
substantial appropriations in their respective annual budgets for the digitization their LCRO fil

Section 36. Mandatory Review. - This Act shall undergo a mandatory review on its provisions
every ten (10) years to make the law more responsive to the needs of times. The review shall be
made by Congress, which shall conduct public hearings and record relevant testimonies of

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functionaries in the civil registration system, which shall be the basis of any amendment or

modification of this Act.

Section 37. Implementing Rules and Regulations — ‘The PSA, in close coordination 4
consultation with the DILG and PACR shall promulgate the Implementing Rules and
Regulations within six (6) months from the effectively of this Act

Section 38. Separability Claw:

invalid or unconstitutional, other parts or provisions hereof which are no:

~ Any part or provision of this Act which shall be held to be
ffected thereby shall

continue to be in full force and ef

Section 39. Repealing Clause. All laws, rules, regulations, orders, memoranda or circulars
inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly

Section 40, Retroactivity.- ‘This Act shall have retroactive effect insofar,
or impair vested or acquired rights,

it does not prejudice

Section 41, Effectivity.- ‘This Act shall take effect fil
Official Gazette or in any nwo (2) national newspapers of general circulation,

(15) days after publication in the

Approved,