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Access to Information

The disclosure of information and the protection of personal information

The Regulation Respecting the Distribution of Information and the Protection of Personal Information requires each body subject to the Act Respecting Access to Documents Held by Public Bodies and the Protection of Personal Information (R.S.Q., c. A-2.1) to publish certain information on its website.

Although the Directeur de l'état civil is under the purview of Services Québec, it has its own website. Therefore, some of the information covered by the Regulation is found there. To access documents whose disclosure is compulsory under the Regulation, other than those available on the Directeur de l'état civil website, we invite you to visit the section pertaining to access to information on the Services Québec website .

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Registers

We must not only comply with the provisions of the Act Respecting Access to Documents Held by Public Bodies and the Protection of Personal Information, but also abide by the provisions of the Civil code of Québec governing the keeping and custody of, and access to, the registers for which we are responsible, not all of which are subject to the Act Respecting Access.

Québec civil status register

The Québec civil status register contains information regarding births, marriages, civil unions and deaths that occurred in Québec or pertain to person domiciled there. The register can only be consulted through an application for a certificate, a copy of an act or an attestation. Otherwise, the register may be consulted only if special permission is granted by the register of civil status.

Register of officiants

The register of officiants contains the names of persons authorized to solemnize a marriage or a civil union in Québec. It may be consulted by anyone who wishes to ensure that a person is authorized to solemnize a marriage or civil union.

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Request for access to documents held by public bodies and the protection of personal information

Requests for access to documents held by the Directeur de l'état civil and covered by the Act Respecting Access to Documents Held by Public Bodies and the Protection of Personal Information must be submitted, by mail, to the person in charge of access to information at ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale:

Madame Pierrette Brie
Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale
425, rue Saint-Amable, 4^e étage
Québec (Québec)    G1R 4Z1

The model entitled Demande d'accès aux documents d'un organisme public (PDF, 14 Ko) (in French only) can be used.

Attention!

No application for a certificate, a copy of an act or an attestation can be sent to the above address. For information on how to submit one of these applications, go to the section entitled Certificate and copy of an act or Attestation.

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Documents used for decision-making

In addition to the Civil Code of Québec , various related regulations and directives govern the decisions we make. They are given below.

Regulations

• Regulation respecting change of name and of other particulars of civil status
• Regulation respecting the keeping and publication of the register of civil status
• Regulation respecting the publication of a notice of tardy declaration of filiation
• Rules respecting the solemnization of civil marriages and civil unions
• Tariff of duties respecting the acts of civil status and change of name or of designation of sex
  

Directives

(in French only)

• Absence d’un constat de naissance signé par un médecin ou une sage-femme (PDF, 121 Ko)
• Attribution du nom à un enfant (PDF, 123 Ko)
• Correction d'une erreur purement matérielle (PDF, 41 Ko)
• Correction d'une erreur relative à la langue dans laquelle un acte de l'état civil a été dressé (PDF, 41 Ko)
• Définition de la notion de motif sérieux justifiant une demande de changement de nom (PDF, 44 Ko)
• Personnes autorisées à demander un certificat ou une copie d'acte de l'état civil (PDF, 45 Ko)
• Présentation du prénom usuel dans les documents délivrés par le Directeur de l'état civil (PDF, 39 Ko)
• Remplacement, ajout ou retrait de prénoms dans un acte de naissance lors d’une demande de changement de nom (PDF, 45 Ko)
• Requêtes signifiées ou notifiées au Directeur de l’état civil (PDF, 33 Ko)

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Reviewed: 2013-04-11