Manama, Nov. 27 (BNA): In line with its awareness campaign, the Information and e-Government Authority urged the public to visit the national portal bahrain.bh to view the updated procedures related to the registration of births and deaths.
Updates can be accessed by visiting the portal home page, selecting the Information directory, then Family & Relationships.
The changes are in line with Law No. 7 of 2019 regulating the registration of births and deaths inside the Kingdom and citizens abroad.
According to the law, citizens and residents must report births that occurred in the Kingdom within 15 days and deaths within 72 hours.
Births and deaths that occur abroad must be reported within 60 days. Cases not reported during those periods will be referred to the Information & eGovernment Authority Committee, which will investigate the reasons for the delay within 30 days from the end of the specified period.
The portal contains all the procedures and documents required to issue certificates in a range of cases, including those related to newborns, deaths, and birth certificates for the first time for adults, in addition to provisions related to changing names, adding surnames, and amending details in the records of the Information and eGovernment Authority, among others. .
Citizens and residents can perform their birth certificate transactions online through the electronic services available on the portal, which include requesting a birth certificate, issuing a birth certificate, and amending the details of the birth certificate by court order.
They can also benefit from the death certificate services available on the portal, which include requesting a death certificate, confirming the death report and printing the death report.
Executing court orders related to the issuance of death certificates requires visiting the Information and eGovernment Authority in person.
The Communications and Marketing Department of the Information and eGovernment Authority, in partnership with the Legal Affairs Department, is holding a series of educational lectures that explain requests to amend birth and death certificates that require judicial orders.
The lectures also explain the updated procedures for registering births and deaths, and the documents required by hospitals, public and private health centers, and administrative staff in nursing departments, morgues, midwives, obstetrics, foreign embassies, and other places.