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06/10/2025

The Law on Acts of Civil Status

Year: 2020

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Documentation

Description

The Law of the Kyrgyz Republic #110 on Acts of Civil Status, dd. August 1, 2020, establishes the legal framework for a unified system of registration of civil status acts within the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as in diplomatic missions and consular offices of the Kyrgyz Republic. The objective of the registration system is to acknowledge by the state the actions of citizens or events registered in accordance with this Law, which affect the emergence, modification, or termination of rights and obligations of citizens, as well as characterize the legal status of citizens and are subject to state registration in the authorities responsible for recording civil status acts.

Selected provisions
Article 7 - Recording of a civil status act

A civil status act shall be recorded electronically using an automated information system and printed on paper. In the event of a discrepancy between the text of the civil status act record in electronic form and the text on paper, the record on paper shall be considered the original. 2. To make a civil status act record, one of the following documents certifying the applicant's identity must be presented: 1) for state registration of birth, marriage, divorce, change of surname, first name, patronymic, and death: a) a valid passport of a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic (ID card), and outside the Kyrgyz Republic - a passport of a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic (ID card) or a general civil passport; b) an officer's identity card; c) a residence permit for stateless persons; d) a passport of a foreign citizen; d) a "Kairylman" certificate for state registration of the birth of a child; e) refugee certificate; g) birth certificate when registering a change of surname, first name and patronymic for persons who have reached the age of sixteen, as well as those who have not reached the age of majority; 2) when receiving a duplicate certificate: a) passport of a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic (ID card), and outside the Kyrgyz Republic - passport of a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic (ID card) or a general civil passport; b) officer's identity card; c) "Kairylman" certificate; d) residence permit for stateless persons; d) passport of a foreign citizen; e) certificate of release from places of imprisonment. g) refugee certificate. The authenticity of documents of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic, foreign citizens and stateless persons issued by competent authorities of foreign states, certifying the fact of state registration of an act of civil status, presented for state registration of acts of civil status, is confirmed by means of consular legalization or apostille, unless otherwise provided by international treaties that have entered into force in the manner prescribed by law, to which the Kyrgyz Republic is a party, and translated into the state and official languages ​​of the Kyrgyz Republic. The authenticity of the signature of the translator who translated the documents must be notarized.

Article 10 - Refusal of state registration of a civil status act

Refusal of state registration of a civil status act
1. State registration of a civil status act shall be refused in the following cases:
1) if state registration is contrary to this Law;
2) if the documents do not meet the requirements imposed on them by this Law and other regulatory legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic, except for the cases provided for in Part 5 of Article 13 of this Law;
3) if there are grounds preventing the registration of civil status acts provided for by the Family Code of the Kyrgyz Republic and this Law.
2. At the request of a person (his representative) who has been refused state registration of a civil status act, the head of the civil registry office is obliged to inform this person (his representative) of the reasons for the refusal in writing.
3. Refusal of state registration of a civil status act may be appealed in the manner determined by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic in the sphere of administrative activity and administrative procedures.

Article 12 - Recognition as valid in the Kyrgyz Republic of documents issued by competent authorities of foreign states to certify acts of civil status

Documents issued by competent authorities of foreign states to certify acts of civil status, executed outside the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic in accordance with the laws of the relevant foreign states in relation to citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic, foreign citizens and stateless persons, shall be recognized as valid in the Kyrgyz Republic if they have consular legalization or an apostille, unless otherwise established by international treaties that have entered into force in the prescribed manner, to which the Kyrgyz Republic is a party.

Article 13 - Grounds for state registration of birth

1. The grounds for state registration of birth are: 1) a birth certificate of the established form issued by the healthcare organization where the birth took place, or a birth certificate issued by a doctor or other medical worker, an authorized healthcare body in case of birth outside a medical institution; 2) documents certifying the identity of the child's parents (one of the parents), a marriage certificate (documents certifying the identity of the mother, if unmarried), or documents certifying the identity of a close relative, an employee of the territorial division of the authorized body for child protection; 3) documents (medical birth certificate, extract from the register, birth certificate, etc.) issued by the competent authorities of foreign states, confirming the fact of birth of children born in a foreign state, whose parents (or one of the parents) are citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic; 4) an application of the established form. 2. In the absence of a medical birth certificate, the state registration of the birth of a child is carried out on the basis of a court decision that has entered into legal force establishing the fact of the birth of a child by a given woman. 3. During the state registration of the birth of a child, based on an application from the spouses who have given consent to the implantation of the embryo into another woman for the purpose of carrying it, a document confirming the fact of the implantation of the embryo issued by a medical organization must be submitted simultaneously with the document confirming the fact of the birth of the child. 4. An application for registration of the birth of a child is submitted by the parents or one of them, and in the event of illness, death of the parents or the impossibility for other reasons to submit an application - at the request of close relatives. If the mother of the child, who is not married to the father of the child, has died or refused to take the child from the healthcare organization after birth, or left the child in the healthcare organization after birth and her place of residence is unknown, the birth of the child is registered based on an application from the administration of the healthcare organization where the birth took place or where the child is located (abandoned), the territorial division of the authorized state body for the protection of children, or the person with whom the child is located. If the child's parents refuse to take the child from the healthcare organization after birth, the child's birth is registered upon application by the administration of the healthcare organization where the birth took place. 5. If the parents (parent) do not have documents proving their identity, state registration of the fact of the child's birth is carried out on the basis of an application for the child's birth and a medical birth certificate, and a birth certificate is issued. In this case, a corresponding note is made in the electronic record of civil status acts. State registration of the fact of the child's birth is carried out for children under one year of age. 6. State registration of the birth of a child who has reached the age of one year or more is carried out upon a written application from the parents (one of the parents) or a close relative, or a territorial division of the authorized state body for the protection of children, as well as upon an application from the child himself upon reaching the age of sixteen with the attachment of the necessary documents determined by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. 7. State registration of the birth of a child born on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, whose parents are foreign citizens or stateless persons residing on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, shall be carried out in accordance with Part 1 of this Article. 8. State registration of the birth of a child born during the introduction of an emergency situation or state of emergency on a separate or the entire territory of the Kyrgyz Republic shall be carried out in accordance with Part 1 of this Article and within a period of no more than one month after the cancellation of the emergency situation or state of emergency.