MOFA Provisions of the birth & death law Iraq : Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Name of the Organization : Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Type of Facility : Provisions of the birth & death law
Country : Iraq

Official Website : http://www.mofa.gov.iq/en/consular-services/general-affairs

MOFA Provisions of the births and deaths law

General Affairs Certain Provisions of the Relevant Laws :
** Law of births and deaths registration number 148 for the year (1971) , and its amended
** The sponsored of a born outside Iraq need to tell the Iraqi mission or any other health competent authority in Iraq about the childbirth within a period of sixty days.

Related : MOFA Provisions of Certificate of Origin Iraq : www.statusin.org/5679.html

** The Iraqi mission or its substitute to issued a certificate with four copies according to the foreign birth certificate and send the first copy ( of the Civil Status ) and the third copy ( of the computer ) to the Ministry of Health

Paragraph :
** It is not allowed to modify or change the information contained in the certificate of birth or death, in the official records concerning births or deaths or to add the missing notes ,without a judgment of a competent court .
** Texts of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations :
** With a view to facilitating the exercise of consular functions relating to nationals of the sending

State :
** Consular officers shall be free to communicate with nationals of the sending State and to have access to them. Nationals of the sending State shall have the same freedom with respect to communication with and access to consular officers of the sending State;
** If he so requests, the competent authorities of the receiving State shall, without delay, inform the consular post of the sending
** Consular officers shall have the right to visit a national of the sending State, who is in prison, custody or detention, to converse and correspond with him and to arrange for his legal representation.
** They shall also have the right to visit any national of the sending State who is in prison, custody or detention in their district in

Consular fees and charges :
** The consular post may levy in the territory of the receiving State the fees and charges provided by the laws and regulations of the sending State for consular acts.
** The sums collected in the form of the fees and charges referred to in paragraph 1 of this article, and the receipts for such fees and charges, shall be exempt from all dues and taxes in the receiving State.

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