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. 6. Expediting proceedings. — The court in which the proceeding is brought may make orders expediting the proceedings, and may also grant preliminary injunction for the preservation of the rights of the parties pending such proceedings.
Rules of Court, Rule 108, Section 6. 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.
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This is Section 6 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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