Title 4

In each municipality there are two, or, at the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen, more Registrars of Civil Status. Furthermore, one or more…

The Registrar of Civil Status is charged with recording certificates and the subsequent endorsements to be added thereto in the registers of civil…

When the Registrar of Civil Status acts in legal proceedings in the exercise of his office pursuant to any provision of this Title or of any other…

The Mayor and Aldermen determine the hours during which each office of the civil registry shall be open to the public daily. In doing so, in order to…

By Order in Council (algemene maatregel van bestuur), rules shall be laid down with respect to the facilities to be provided by the Municipal…

There exist for each municipality registers of births, of marriages, of registered partnerships and of deaths.

The registers of civil status are kept in the town hall until they are transferred to a municipal archive repository within the meaning of the…

The custodian of an archival repository as referred to in Article 17a is charged with keeping the registers in his custody, with adding subsequent…

By Order in Council, all further matters concerning the organisation of the registers shall be regulated, as well as the acts referred to in Article…

The Registrar of Civil Status may only include in the certificates that which must be declared or included pursuant to what is provided by or under…

Parties to a civil status record are those who make a declaration to the Registrar of Civil Status or make a statement before him concerning a fact…

For the reliability and confidentiality of the electronic notification, as well as the drawing up and storage of a deed in electronic form, a data…

If a party to a deed of civil status or an interested party fails to produce the documents referred to in Article 18, paragraph 3, or if the…

A duplicate or a transcript shall be kept of all deeds of civil status recorded in the registers, in accordance with rules to be established by…

A record of birth shall be drawn up by the registrar of births, deaths, marriages and registered partnerships of the municipality where the child was…

In the event of a birth on Netherlands territory in a moving vehicle or on a sailing vessel or during a domestic air journey with an aircraft, the…

If the place or the date of birth of the child is not known, or if the name, including the given names, of the mother from whom the child was born is…

If, pursuant to Article 5, paragraph 10, of this Book, a provisional forename and surname have been included in the deed, the Registrar of Births…

If the sex of the child is uncertain, a birth certificate shall be drawn up, stating that the sex of the child could not be determined.

The notification of a birth may be made in person or, if this method has been made available, electronically. Only the mother from whom the child was…

A death certificate shall be drawn up by the registrar of the municipality where the death occurred.

In the event of a death on Dutch territory in a moving vehicle or on a sailing vessel or during a domestic air journey with an aircraft, the death…

Any person who has knowledge of a death from their own observation is authorised to report that death.

When a child is born lifeless, a deed shall be drawn up, which shall be recorded in the register of deaths.

By administrative order (algemene maatregel van bestuur), regulations shall be established regarding all matters concerning the documents to be…

Any person who has his habitual residence in the Netherlands may request the registrar of the municipality of his place of residence to issue a…

The Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Registered Partnerships shall add to the civil status records held by him subsequent marginal notes of…

The marginal notes referred to in Article 20, with the exception of the notes referred to in paragraph 1, under (b), as well as the notes concerning…

Of certificates and judgments drawn up or rendered outside the Netherlands by a competent authority in accordance with local regulations and having…

Articles 18 and 18c shall apply mutatis mutandis.

By order in council, regulations shall be established concerning all matters regarding the documents to be submitted to the registrar, the drawing up…

Of the decisions referred to in Article 20, paragraph 1, the clerk of the court before which the case was last pending shall send a copy to the…

The Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Registered Partnerships who enters the data of a deed of choice of name into the birth certificate of…

The Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Registered Partnerships who adds a later entry to the birth certificate of a minor, from which it…

The Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Registered Partnerships (ambtenaar van de burgerlijke stand) in The Hague shall draw up records of…

The birth certificate proves against everyone that a child of the sex stated therein was born to the mother named therein at the place, on the day…

Authentic copies or extracts, drawn up and issued in the legal form by the competent keeper of the register, have the same evidentiary value as the…

The records of civil status, including the duplicates of these records, are public insofar as no further provision has been made in this respect in…

Only the registrars and the public prosecution service may inspect the acts of civil status. Furthermore, the court and the public prosecution…

Any person is entitled to have the official charged with the issuance of copies and extracts of acts of civil status issue an extract of an act of…

The duplicates of the civil status records shall be public as long as they remain in the custody of the registrar of birth, deaths and marriages.

Supplementing a civil status register with a missing deed or later mention, the striking through of a deed or later mention incorrectly appearing…

Obvious clerical or spelling errors and obvious mistakes may be corrected ex officio by the registrar of births, deaths, marriages and registered…

Supplementation of a register of civil status on the basis of Article 24 shall take place by the drawing up of a new deed in that register.

Birth certificates, marriage certificates, certificates of registration of a partnership, and death certificates drawn up outside the Netherlands by…

If, after the registration, manifest errors in the deed drawn up outside the Netherlands have been corrected by a competent authority in accordance…

To the deed of registration, referred to in Article 25, shall be added the subsequent entries which, pursuant to this Book, must be added to a deed…

If, in respect of a person born outside the Netherlands, no birth certificate has been drawn up by a competent authority in accordance with local…

The Court of The Hague may, at the petition of the Public Prosecution Service, an interested party, or the Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and…

The registrar of the court before which the case was last pending shall, no earlier than three months after the date of the order, send a copy…

Articles 25 to 25b inclusive shall apply mutatis mutandis to deeds and judgments which have been drawn up or rendered outside the Netherlands by a…

Any person who has a justified interest therein may petition the court to issue a declaratory judgment that a deed drawn up or a judgment rendered…

The court may, upon petition or of its own motion, in the declaratory judgment referred to in Article 26, paragraph 1, also order the addition of a…

If no deed regarding the petitioner has been recorded in the Dutch registers of civil status, the court of The Hague may, upon petition or of its own…

The production of an authentic copy of the foreign deed or judgment to which the petition relates may be required. Article 986, paragraphs 3 and 4…

The registrar of the court before which the case was last pending shall send a copy of the order to the registrar of births, deaths, marriages and…

Following a decision by a Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages (ambtenaar van de burgerlijke stand) to refuse, on the basis of Article 18c or…

The court may, upon petition of an interested party or of its own motion, also issue in its order a declaration as referred to in Article 26, as well…

The clerk of the court sends a copy of the order to the interested parties and to the Registrar of Civil Status.

Any Dutch national of sixteen years of age or older who has the conviction of belonging to the gender other than the one stated in the birth…

Upon the notification, a statement shall be submitted from an expert designated by or pursuant to a general administrative measure, issued no more…

If Article 28a has been complied with, the registrar of births, deaths and marriages shall add a subsequent entry of the change of sex to the birth…

The amendment of the gender designation in the birth certificate shall have its consequences, arising from this Book, from the day on which the…

There is an Advisory Committee for matters concerning civil status and nationality.

The Commission consists of at least nine and at most fifteen members.

The Commission shall, at the request of a Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Registered Partnerships (ambtenaar van de burgerlijke stand) or…

If a Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Registered Partnerships has reasonable doubt as to whether data to be derived from a civil status…

If a registrar of births, deaths, marriages and registered partnerships does not follow an advice given by the Commission, he shall notify the…

Our Minister of Justice may lay down further rules regarding the task and the working method of the Commission.

Every four years, the Commission shall submit a report to Our Minister of Justice, in which the performance of the Commission's duties is subjected…