PETITIONClosedPetition · petition.parliament.uk
Change laws around amendments on birth certificates
I want the Government to change the law so that corrections to a birth registration are made to the relevant part of the full birth certificate, not in a marginal note.
Last fetched 03 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 49/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 49/100,000
Background
If a registrar makes a mistake in entering the sex of a child this cannot corrected on register itself, only in a note in the margin. This may affect the child's future making life difficult for them when getting married, applying for jobs and everything else they need a birth certificate for.