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

Section 7 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

7. When only one of the duplicates of a register of acts of civil status or of a volume of such register is destroyed or lost, the Minister of Justice may appoint a commissioner to reconstitute it by transcribing in a new duplicate, authenticated in conformity with the provisions of the Civil Code, all the inscriptions entered in the existing duplicate.

The depositary of the latter is bound to permit and facilitate access by the commissioner to such duplicate and to allow him to make a copy thereof.

When the commissioner has finished the transcription thereof in the new register or volume, he shall inscribe, on the first leaf, the following certificate: “New duplicate of the register (or of the volume of the register, as the case may be) of (births, marriages or burials, as the case may be) of (name of the church, chapel, mission, congregation or religious community concerned), for the period comprised between (dates of the beginning and end of the period covered by the reconstituted duplicate of the register or volume), reconstituted according to the existing duplicate deposited (designation of the place where the existing duplicate is found)”.

The commissioner shall then affix his signature at the foot of such certificate.

R. S. 1964, c. 313, s. 7; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 16, s. 21; 1966, c. 16, s. 2.