MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Plenary Session of the Senate has agreed to process the bill presented by Junts to modify the Civil Registry so that birth and death certificates are permanent and are not older than six months from the time they are issued.
The consideration of this initiative has gone ahead in the Senate thanks to 130 votes in favor and 125 abstentions, including those of the PSOE. Now, the bill goes to Congress to be processed like any other rule.
What is intended with this modification is to add a new article 82 bis to the Civil Registry Law so that the certifications, in extract or literal, of birth or death are presumed to be permanently valid, “without prejudice to the responsibilities that could occur due to discrepancies between their content and the registration, provided that said discrepancies cannot be attributed to the Civil Registry itself”.
And it is that, according to Junts in its text, to which Europa Press has had access, at present, the maximum age of the certificates is usually between three and six months from the moment it is issued.
“This temporary fork does not assure the receiving Administration of the certifications that they have truthful content, so it does not exempt the citizen from this responsibility,” Junts warns.
