Birth registration

• Birth registration
• Where to register a birth
• Opposite-sex parents
• Same-sex female parents
• Same-sex male parents
• Other people who can register a birth
• What you need to tell the registrar
• Birth certificates
• Child Benefit
• Re-registering a birth
• Changing a child's forenames
• Perjury warning
• Privacy Notice

All births should be registered within 42 days.

Birth registration interviews are in person at our register offices.

• Please arrive no more than 10 minutes before your appointment.
• Our offices are small, only those essential to the registration should attend. Where the parents are married or in a civil partnership, only one parent can sign the register.

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• Register a birth (gov.uk)

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