Registering a birth

1. Birth registration
2. Where to register a birth
3. Opposite-sex parents
4. Same-sex female parents
5. Same-sex male parents
6. Other people who can register a birth
7. What you need to tell the registrar
8. Birth certificates
9. Child Benefit
10. Re-registering a birth
11. Changing a child's forenames
12. Perjury warning
13. Privacy Notice

Birth certificates

Birth certificates can be ordered after the register entry is signed.

Why not ask your Registrar about purchasing Commemorative Certificate or a Registrar's Fountain Pen to mark the occasion?

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