After your baby is born, you must register the birth with the Registrar in the area where the baby was born within six weeks of the date of birth.
If it is inconvenient for you to travel back to the area where the baby was born to register the birth, a facility exists where you may give details of the birth by declaration at your local Register Office.
We will take the details of the registration and forward them by post to the Registrar of the area where the baby was born. The Registrar in that office will make the entry in the birth register from the details on the declaration and will then forward to you, the short birth certificate issued free of charge and the form FP58 which enables you to register your baby with your local doctor.
You should allow at least seven working days between giving the birth declaration and the receipt of documents. If you have not received anything after this time you should contact the Register Office for the area in which the birth took place and not the office that took the declaration of birth.
The information required by the Registrar taking the declaration of birth is the same for the registration of a birth.
