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C-10 - Act respecting the change of name and of other particulars of civil status
Section 10
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10. The Minister shall transmit to each and every depositary of the registers of civil status where the act of birth of the applicant is entered a true copy of the certificate.
The depositaries shall transcribe such certificate in the registers of civil status containing the acts of birth of the current year and draw up a new act of birth in conformity with such certificate.
They shall also indicate in the margin of the act of birth of the applicant the changes to the entries concerned and a reference to the register of the year and the page containing the new act of birth.
10. The registers of civil status containing the act of birth or of marriage of a person whose name is changed by an order shall be amended accordingly, upon the filing of a copy with the depositary.
