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Sunday, March 5, 2017
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KALIBO, Aklan – Those claiming they were requested to secure the birth certificates of others must first secure authorization letters from the persons they were representing, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Aklan.
PSA is formerly the National Statistics Office (NSO).
Birth records of a person are considered confidential information as provided for in Article 7 of Presidential Decree 603 (Child and Youth Welfare Code), explained Provincial Statistics Officer Antonet Catubuan.
This is why PSA requires an authorization letter before the document can be released except when he or she is the owner himself, parent, spouse, direct descendant, legal guardian, or institution in-charge if the child is minor, said Catubuan.
PSA also requires a valid identification card of the owner and that of the requester as additional requirement for requesting the birth certificate.
However, Catubuan clarified, other civil registry documents such as marriage, death and certificate of no marriage (Cenomar) records are considered public documents, thus, can be requested by anyone as long as the requester knows the information asked in the application form.
Except for Cenomar which entails a fee of P195 per copy, other civil documents have a fee of P140 per copy.
Catubuan said these civil registry documents can be requested in any PSA Serbilis Outlet nationwide regardless of where the record was registered./PN
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