Registration offices are located in Bo'ness, Brightons, Denny, Falkirk, Grangemouth and Stenhousemuir. All registration staff are qualified and are authorised by the Registrar General to solemnise marriages.
All offices provide a full registration service (including genealogical research) and, with the exception of Brightons, all offices have a marriage room where civil marriages are performed.
The offices in Bo'ness, Brightons, Denny, Grangemouth and Stenhousemuir also carry out additional 'area office duties' including administration of the footwear and clothing grant scheme, free school meals and school lets.
The statutory time limits for registration of births, deaths and marriages are as follows:
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Type of registration
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Time Limit For registration
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Where can the event be registered?
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Birth (including still birth)
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21 days
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You can register the birth of your baby in any of the Registration Offices in Falkirk if your baby was born in Scotland.
Details of the local registration offices can be found here|.
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Death
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8 days
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You can register a death at any of the registration offices in Falkirk if the death occurred in Scotland.
Details of the local registration offices can be found here|.
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Marriage
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3 days
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Only the Registration Office for the area where the marriage took place.
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The General Register Office for Scotland is the department of the devolved Scottish Administration responsible for the registration of births, marriages, deaths, divorces and adoptions in Scotland, and for carrying out periodic censuses of Scotland's population.
General Register Office for Scotland
Room 1/1/1 Ladywell House
Ladywell Road
Edinburgh
Telephone: 0131 334 0380
Website: www.gro-scotland.gov.uk|