obtain duly certified abstracts thereof, on payment of a fee, prescribed by the Central Bureau.
Chapter III
Manner of Registration of Vital Statistics
18. The register of births shall contain entries of births and of finding of children, as well as of changes in a person's civil status resulting from the establishment of his or her parentage.
19. Notice of the birth or of the finding of a child shall be given within three days from the day on which said event occurred.
Note. The provincial bureaus in the case of far outlying localities may extend the notification period of the present section, provided that the said extension shall not exceed one month.
20. Notification of the place wherein the birth of a child occurred shall be given to the registration bureau, by the parents of the child, or by either of them, or by any other person in whose custody the child may happen to be because of the illness, absence, or death of the parents.
21. Notification shall be made in writing or by oral declaration.
22. The notice shall mention the day, the hour, and the place of birth, the sex of the child, the name given to it, the names, surnames, permanent residence and the ages of the parents, and the relative age position of the child as compared with other children of the same parents.
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