Read with care. A court order is no longer required for every correction of a civil registry entry. Republic Act No. 9048 (2001) and Republic Act No. 10172 (2012) opened an administrative route through the local civil registrar for clerical or typographical errors, for a change of first name, and for the day and month of birth and the sex entry where the error is clerical. Substantial corrections still require the judicial proceeding below.
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Sec. 4. Notice and publication. — Upon the filing of the petition, the court shall, by an order, fix the time and place for the hearing of the same, and cause reasonable notice thereof to be given to the persons named in the petition. The court shall also cause the order to be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the province.
Rules of Court, Rule 108, Section 4. Reproduced verbatim and verified word-for-word against four independently published renderings of the Rules of Court — only text on which at least two independent publishers agree is shown.
About this section
This is Section 4 of Rule 108 (Cancellation Or Correction Of Entries In The Civil Registry) of the Rules of Court of the Philippines — the Special Proceedings rules (Rules 72–109), in force since January 1, 1964. The text above is reproduced verbatim.
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