• The Civil Registry Act requires the registration in appropriate civil registry books of all facts and acts concerning the civil status of persons, from birth to death, including any modifications thereof.

        • These various registrable documents are considered public documents and are prima facie evidence of the truth of the facts contain therein. These documents include the Certificate of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Judicial decree covering annulment of marriages, legal separations, judgments declaring marriages void from the beginning, adoptions, change of names, legal instruments such as legitimation, acknowledgements affecting the civil status of persons.

        • It is therefore, incumbent on every registrar to strive for an efficient and responsive civil registration system because of the numerous advantages derived from such system.