CIVIL STATUS SERVICE

The role of the Civil Status service includes;

• Recording specific information regarding vital events according to established methods and procedures

• Ensuring compliance with registration law

• Ensuring the accuracy and completeness of each record

• Adopting such measures as are required to enable the to be informed of the necessity, procedures and requirements of registration, and the value of vital statistics

• Taking custody of records

• Ensuring the completion of a statistical report for each registered vital event and its transmission according to a regular time schedule to the compiling agency, for data processing and dissemination

• Issuing certificates or copies of the vital records upon request

• Providing customer services

• In the case of death registration, ensuring that the certification of the cause of death is part of the documentation.