1. Session 6. overview of annotated outline of new guidelines
Brisbane Accord Group
Session 6. overview of annotated outline of new guidelines
Civil Registration Process: Place, Time, Cost, Late Registration
UNITED NATIONS STATISTICS DIVISION
Technical Seminar on Legal Framework for Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems
Manila, Philippines, July 2017
with

2. Background The current version
Called Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Preparation of a Legal Framework
Issued in 1998
Still relevant, but:
Evolution of international law and human rights
New principles and recommendations
Contemporary technology
Integration with ID management systems, population registers

3. Comparison
Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Preparation of a Legal Framework
Guidelines on the Legislative Framework for Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management

4. Comparison Original version (Handbook) New version (Guidelines)
The theory of civil registration
Contributions of civil registration to the normal functioning of societies
Human rights and civil registration
The administrative vital statistics system
Example of how to prepare an organic civil registration law
Outline, explanatory statement and articles of the draft organic civil registration law
Preparation of the regulations implementing the civil registration law
New version (Guidelines)
Introduction
The theory of civil registration
Civil registration and human rights
Civil registration law

5. Chapter I – The theory of civil registration
Concept and definitions
Concept of civil status
Sources of civil registration
Principles of civil registration legislation
Legal events and acts
Functions of civil registration
Jurisdictional principles governing civil registration

6. Chapter II – Civil registration and human rights
Introduction
Right to register vital events
Human rights that depend on the registration of vital events

7. Chapter III – Civil registration law
Matters of law and matters for the regulations
Content of civil registration law

8. Guidelines on the Legislative Framework
General comments and discussion
Specific comments and suggestions (by section)
National examples and experiences to be placed throughout the text
UNSD will produce a draft document