• Eligible person should inform to the Grama Niladari within 7 days of the birth is occurred.
• Grama Niladari shall send a report to the registrar of the area
• The birth of your child will be registered by the registrar of births and deaths of the area where the birth has occurred.
• Obtain the declaration of death from the register. Duly filled declaration of birth shall submit to the registrar of births and deaths of the area.

• Duly filled declaration form

Department of Registrar General's

No: 234 /A3,

Denzil Kobbakaduwa Mw,

Battaramulla,

Sri Lanka.

Telephones: +94-11-2889488 / +94-11-2889489

Fax Nos :+94-11-2889491

Email: info@rgd.gov.lk, rgd@sltnet.lk

Website: www.rgd.gov.lk

Persons are eligible to give information,

• Father
• Mother
• Each person present at the birth
• Person have in charge of the child

• Birth may be register free of charge within a period of 03 months.
• Birth registered after 03 months. (Please see the delayed registration of births.)

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Please attach documents which can be used by people who would like to follow this procedure.    

Please attach sample completed documents which would help other people who would like to follow this procedure.    

Please explain the processing your application.    

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M" Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M". 
	

• Inform the Grama Niladari within 07 days of the birth is occurred.
• Grama Niladari shall send a report to the registrar of the area.
• The birth is registered by the registrar of births and deaths of the area where birth has occurred.
• Duly filled declaration of birth shall submit to the registrar of births and deaths of the area. Declaration of birth can be obtained from the registrar.
• Persons required to give information,
  • Father
  • Mother
  • Each person present at the birth
  • Person have in charge of the child
• Birth may be register free of charge within a period of 03 months. Birth can be registered after 03 months. Please see the delayed registration of births.
• Certificate of birth is issued to the informant free of charge.

• Name
• Date and Place of Birth
• Fathers and Mothers Full name, Date & Place of Birth, Residence and Age
• Sex
• Registrars Division and District
• Were parents married or not
• Grandfathers full name, year & place of birth

You can register a child births occurred at home by following the below instructions and procedure.

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Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

Sri Lanka Government Information Center - Registration of a Birth Occurred in Home http://www.gic.gov.lk/gic/index.php?option=com_info&task=info&id=2&lang=en

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