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Civil Status Registry to Relocate by Year's end

Contact: Julita Peter

Friday,  December 14, 2007 –  The island's Civil Status Act  has been amended in order to facilitate the further modernization of the Civil Status Registry.  Attorney General Senator The Honourable Nicholas Frederick, who presented the Bill in the Senate recently, said  the changes will affect the processing of civil status records such as  birth,  marriage, and death certificates.

Senator Frederick said the new computerized system, which was recently installed, will not only positively affect the method in which the records are being processed, but the processing time as well. The aim, he said, is to have unified computerized records, bringing an end to the discrepancies found, especially in baptismal and birth records.

“The idea of the unified birth certificate will foster some degree of integration of the information from the two different certificates. Any inconsistencies that exist in one or the other will be resolved by a professionally trained lawyer, which will serve as an adjudicator, and who will be responsible for supervising the process,” the Attorney General said.

However, Senator Frederick said, the re-organization of the Civil Status Registry cannot be realized if the issues of space constraints are not addressed. According to the Attorney General, preparation works on the Chreiki Building have been completed for relocation of the Civil Status Registry by year's end.

Said Senator Frederick,“There will be adequate space on the ground floor to accommodate the existing Civil Status staff, to get additional persons to assist the process and to expedite the process.  There will be room to accommodate a large section of the public who will be waiting for services inside the building and not outside as presently exists.  More importantly there will be enough space to bring in the staff, which we intend to hire early in the new year, to bring about the development of the unified birth records.”

The new procedures for the civil records are hoped to be implemented by the first quarter of the new year.

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