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Registering the birth of your baby

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You should register the birth of your baby at the local register office (https://www.gov.uk/register-offices) For the area where the baby was born. 

If you can’t register the birth in the area where the baby was born, you can go to another register office to make a birth declaration and they will send your details to the correct office where the registration will then be recorded in the correct register. 

A birth registration can only be carried out by a qualified informant: 

Information for registration is required to be given, in person, within 42 days of the birth and certain people have a legal responsibility to do this.  

In order of preference they are as follows: 

  • Mother of the child 
  • The father of the child where the child’s parents were married to each other at the time of the birth or conception 
  • Where the child was conceived as a result of fertility treatment: the father if at the time of the treatment he was married to the child’s mother, or the second female parent if at the time of the treatment she was married to/in a civil  

partnership with the child’s mother 

  • The occupier of the house or establishment in which the birth took place 
  • A person present at the birth or 
  • The person in charge of the child 

Where the father is not married to the child’s mother at birth or conception his name and other particulars cannot be recorded in the register unless he attends with the mother to register (although he has no legal duty to do so). 

There are certain circumstances where registrations can be carried to include the fathers’ details e.g. by producing a court order; however this will need to be discussed with the registrar at time of making the appointment to register the birth. 

You can book directly with your local registrant by contacting: 

Bridgend: https://www.bridgend.gov.uk/residents/births-deaths-and-marriages/register-a-birth/ 

Rhondda Cynon Taf: https://www.rctcbc.gov.uk/EN/Resident/BirthsMarriagesandDeaths/Births/Registeringabirth.aspx 

Merthyr Tydfil: https://www.merthyr.gov.uk/resident/births-deaths-marriages/registering-a-birth/ 

 

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