• Skip Navigation
  • Text Only
  • Speech Enable with Browsealoud
  • Accessibility

southtyneside.info

  • Home
  • Site Map
  • Feedback
  • A-Z
  • FAQs
  • E-services
  • Online Maps

  • Business & Jobs
  • Community & Living
  • Council & Democracy
  • Education & Leisure
  • Environment & Planning
  • Housing
  • Transport & Streets
  • News & Events
  • Visiting Us

Register Office: Births

Registering a Birth

Births

  • Where do I register a birth?
  • Who can register the birth?
  • What do I need to register a baby?
  • What the Registrar will need to know?
  • What documents will I obtain from the Registrar after I register my baby?
  • How much does it cost to register a baby?
  • How long after my baby's birth do I need to register it?
  • What happens if a birth is not registered within 6 weeks?
  • What if the parents don't have English as their first language?
  • How do I show the father's details in the register if we are not married to each other?
  • What if we have moved out of the district since the birth of the baby?

See also:

  • Requesting Certificates
  • Birth Re-registration
  • Stillbirths
  • Civil Naming Ceremonies
  • Adopted Children Register and Contact Register

Register Office home

In this section

  • Register Office home
  • Births
  • Civil naming ceremonies
  • Civil partnerships
  • Deaths
  • Genealogy
  • History of civil registration
  • Legal duties
  • Marriages
  • Online register search
  • Online register search help
  • Renewal of vows

Contact us

Register Office
South Tyneside Council
18 Barrington Street, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE33 1AN
0191 455 3915
registrars@ southtyneside.gov.uk
  • Comments form

Rate this page
We'd like to know how you rate this information / service?

  • Back to Top : 
  • Disclaimer & Privacy Statement : 
  • Website Statistics : 
  • Help : 
  • © South Tyneside Council 2008
  • Direct Gov
  • Get Safe Online