LEGAL AND REGULATORY

A good legal and regulatory framework is essential for the effective management, operation, and maintenance of a civil registration system. In the absence of a proper legal framework that obliges individuals to register births and deaths, and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders involved, civil registration systems cannot function.

A well-designed registration law gives clear guidelines around how the civil registration system will work. It provides the rules needed to register the vital events records that affect the civil status of individuals, defines the role of civil registration in the production of vital statistics and its relations with other institutions that rely on such data, and defines the services we provide.