Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Act 2024

Amendment of section 25A of Act of 2004

7. Section 25A of the Act of 2004 is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) Notwithstanding the duty of a person under this Part to provide the surname of the child as a required particular of the registration of the birth, the registrar shall register the birth of a child, or an tArd Chláraitheoir shall cause the birth of a child to be registered without the surname of the child, where—

(a) the registrar, or as the case may be, an tArd-Chláraitheoir, is satisfied that the parents of the child do not agree regarding a surname for the child, or

(b) the birth is registered under subsection (1E)(b)(i) of section 22.”,

(b) by the deletion of subsection (2), and

(c) in subsection (3), by the deletion of “or under subsection (1E)(a) or (1K) of section 22”.