Cap. 16 Art. 271Power to make regulations.

(1) The Minister responsible for the Public Registry may make regulations:

(a) providing for the making of duplicates of original acts of civil status or other documents relative to civil status, entered in the Public Registry in virtue of this

Code or of any other law, as well as duplicates of the relative registers of such acts or documents, as well as duplicates of the relative index of such acts, documents or registers where the original act, document, register or index has been lost, destroyed or damaged, whether such loss, destruction or damage has occurred by wear and tear or otherwise;

(b) prescribing the mode in which such duplicates shall be prepared and authenticated;

(c) prescribing that any acts, documents, registers or indices referred to in paragraph (a) be reproduced by microfilming, and the mode in which such reproductions are to be made, stored and made accessible to the public;

(d) prescribing the manner in which reproductions made by microfilming and copies thereof may be authenticated;

(e) providing for the computerisation, including storage of information taken from any act or document entered in the Public Registry and for the production of documents containing statements of such information and the authentication of such documents;

(f) prescribing the form of the application for the issue of certificates containing a full copy or an extract of any act, document, register or index;

(g) adding new forms or amending or modifying any of the forms in Part II of the First Schedule to this Code; and

(h) providing for any matter incidental or supplementary to any of the foregoing provisions.

(2) Any duplicate copy made in accordance with regulations made under sub-article (1) shall for all intents and purposes, replace the relative original act, document, register or index.