Parents of a newborn child are legally required to register the child's birth within 42 days at the local register office. Either parent can register the birth if they were married to each other at the time of the child's birth and the birth certificate will include both parents' details. If the parents have married after the child was born, they are legally required to re-register the birth, even if the father is already on the child's birth certificate.
Where parents are unmarried, the details of both parents can be included on the birth certificate if they sign the birth register together or if one parent completes a statutory declaration of parentage form and the other takes the signed form to register the birth.
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