Other people who can register a birth

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Certificates posted after 20 December may not arrive until after 5 January.

If you require your certificates earlier, please arrange to collect them in person. 

• 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

In exceptional circumstances, if the parents cannot register the birth (for example, for medical reasons) certain other people can do it:

• Someone who was present at the birth
• Someone who is legally responsible for the child
• A member of the administrative staff at the hospital where the child was born

Please call us on 0345 60 80 198 to arrange to register in these circumstances.

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