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Dear General Register Office, FAO: 151 Officer

Notice For Information Under Freedoms of Information Act 2000

Can you please advise me as to why all the birth certificate numbers on all the birth certificates of my family and some of my friends who checked their birth cert relate to funds and or delayed funds on the world markets?

For the purpose of checking we changed the numbers slightly to which no accounts can be found in this way but every time we entered a birth certificate number a record is found. Will you explain this?

Are there any contractual or consentual obligations attached to the birth certificate process?

What is the financial business being created with these records if any?

Is a legal title created from the birth records process and who owns equitable right to it if so?

Yours faithfully,

Master_Stuart

Dear Master Stuart,
Thank you for your email via this website to the General Register Office
in relation to birth certificate numbers.
We have handled your request as official correspondence rather than under
the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, but this has made no
difference to the response.
Each birth certificate contains a unique reference number, comprised of
letters and numbers. This is an anti-fraud measure, designed to enable it
to be possible if need be to tell where the certificate was issued from,
and to which register entry it relates. Since each certificate has a
unique number, if more than one certificate is issued for the same entry
then they will have different serial numbers.
Birth registration has nothing to do with “funds or delayed funds on the
world markets”, and the numbers on birth certificates are in no way
related to such matters. They simply relate to birth register entries.
I’m not sure what you have in mind by “contractual or consensual
obligations”. There is a requirement under the Births and Deaths
Registration Act 1953 for all births to be registered, but there is no
contract entered when a registration is made. Similarly, there is no legal
title created from the birth registration, and no financial business is
created by registering a birth.
I hope this helps to clarify the position.
Best wishes
Selwyn Hughes
Policy advisor
Civil Registration
Her Majesty's Passport Office, General Register Office
Room 03, Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Southport PR8 2HH
E: [email address]
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Dear Hughes Selwyn,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

It doesn't solve the matter of why the birth certificate numbers can be tracked on the financial markets as some sort of bond. As you said the numbers are unique. I have searched as many certificates as I can lay my hands on and they all return a result.

Could you please further investigate the matter on that issue or request a response from someone who may know the answer to this?

Yours sincerely,

Master_Stuart

Dear Master Stuart,

Serial numbers on certificates are a combination of letters and numbers. No two certificates will have the same serial number. However, I imagine that any other document that wishes to be uniquely identified may also adopt serial numbers using a combination of letters and numbers. These may or may not include financial bonds, and I suppose it's not impossible that some serial numbers may be the same (although I doubt it, since certificate serial numbers are relatively short). What I can say for sure is that birth records / certificate serial numbers are not linked to bonds / financial records, and that none such bonds are created by the act of registering a birth. So if any financial bond did happen to have the same serial number as that shown on a birth certificate, there is no connection between the two.

Selwyn Hughes
Policy advisor
Civil Registration

Her Majesty's Passport Office, General Register Office
Room 03, Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Southport PR8 2HH
E: [email address]
www.gov.uk

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  Just use the application number. Photocopy everything before you send it off.
  The NI card is sufficient.
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