R-2 - Act respecting the reconstitution of civil status registers

Section 5 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

5. On proof obtained to his satisfaction that a birth, marriage or burial took place in the territory of the church, chapel, mission, congregation or other religious community for which such register or volume was kept and that an act thereof had been inscribed in the duplicates of such register or volume, the commissioner shall inscribe such act in the new duplicates of the said register or volume, following in so far as is possible the provisions of the Civil Code respecting the inscription of acts of civil status in the registers kept for such purpose.

Such inscription shall be attested by the signature of the commissioner and, the case arising, by those of the witnesses who established the proof of such facts.

R. S. 1964, c. 313, s. 5.