Chapter I
Offices for the Registration of Civil Status and
Domestic Relations
1. Records relating to civil status and domestic relations shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the civil authorities of the Bureaus of Vital Statistics.
Note I. Records relating to civil status and domestic relations of Russian citizens abroad shall be under the jurisdiction of the foreign representative of the Russian Republic.
Note II. The registration of births, marriages and deaths occurring on ship-board on the high seas, or in the army engaged in active military operations, shall be the duty of the captain of the ship or the adjutant general of the respective army corps. The said persons shall keep copies of the documents and shall transmit the records at the first opportunity to the nearest Bureau of Vital Statistics which shall then file them with the proper local bureau.
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