Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

• 1.   Short title

• 2.   Interpretation

• 3.   Records of civil status and registration districts

• 4.   Registrar, Assistant Registrars, Civil Status Assistants

• 5.   District Registrars

• 6.   Registers of Civil Status

• 6A.   REGISTER OF BIRTHS

• 7.   Notification of births

• 8.   Births to be registered in Saint Lucia

• 9.   Responsibility to apply to register a birth and form of application

• 10.   Timeframe for the registration of the birth of a child

• 11.   Registration of parental details

• 12.   Child's name

• 13.   Application to change child's forename within a year of birth

• 14.   Issuance of updated records of a birth or adoption

• 15.   Change of name by Registration OF NOTARIAL INSTRUMENT

• 16.   Types of marriages

• 17.   Performance of marriage

• 18.   Registration of marriages

• 19.   Death in a house or elsewhere

• 20.   Requisition by Registrar of information concerning death

• 21.   Registration of death on receipt of information under section 19 or 20 and medical certificate

• 23.   Time restrictions for registration

• 24.   Requirement for certificate of death

• 25.   Rectification by REGISTRAR

• 25A.   RECTIFICATION OF A CLERICAL ERROR IN A RECORD OF CIVIL STATUS

• 25B.   Insertion of a person's name on a Birth Certificate

• 25C.   Change of an entry in a record of civil status

• 25D.   Rectification process

• 25E.   Rectification Order

• 26.   Annual abstract of births and deaths

• 27.   Quarterly transmission of copies of registers

• 28.   Offences

• 29.   General penalty

• 30.   Regulations

• 30A.   Amendment of Schedule

• 31.   Consequential amendment to Civil Code

• 32.   Repeal

• 33.   Transitional

• Schedule

• 22.   Information from coroner