DAGUPAN CITY, Oct. 29 (PIA) – There is now an easy and inexpensive way to correct errors in one’s civil registry entries.

Dante Pescador, provincial statistics officer of NSO Pangasinan, said petitioners can now simply file a verified petition with the local civil registry office where the record sought to be corrected is kept.

Pescador said the civil registry is now authorized to correct typographical errors in an entry without a court order under a new law, Republic Act 9048.

The municipal or city civil registrar can already change or correct names without a court order if the petitioner finds the name to be ridiculous, tainted with dishonor or extremely difficult to write or pronounce, or the change will avoid confusion.

The requirements are: 1) Present an affidavit establishing the merits of the petition and to show that petitioner is competent to testify to the matters stated; 2) Bring three (3) copies of a) Certified true machine copy of the page of registry book containing the entry sought to be corrected or changed; b) At least two public or private documents showing the correct entries upon which the change shall be based; and c) other documents which the petitioner, city or municipal civil registry or consul general may consider relevant and necessary for the approval of petition.

Under the law, the civil registrar general has the power to question such decision within ten working days from the receipt of the decision granting the petition.

The failure of the office to exercise the power within the prescribed period shall make the decision of the city or municipality final and executory.

Reasonable fees for the petition are authorized to be collected except if the petitioner is found to be indigent, Pescador added. (PIA-1, Pangasinan)

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