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Information booklets & leaflets are available at the Registration Reception. Forms are available to the Public for Name changes, Adoptions, Re-registrations, Marriage and Civil Partnership Application, Birth and Death registration.

Please find below forms which are on the NI Direct website www.nidirect.gov.uk and links to where they can be found:

commemorative https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/commemorative-certificate-application-form
GRO 004 birth registration https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/birth-registration-form
GRO 012 birth registration - record fathers name https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/birth-re-registration-forms
GRO 013 declaration of parentage form - married https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/declaration-paternity-form
GRO 015 birth registration - married since birth https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/birth-re-registration-forms
GRO 040 Birth certificate https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/birth-certificate-application-form
GRO 040a Adoption certificate https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/adoption-certificate-application-form
GRO 041 Death certificate https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/death-certificate-application-form
GRO 041a Stillbirth certificate https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/stillbirth-certificate-application-form
GRO 042 Marriage certificate https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/marriage-certificate-application-form
GRO 073 Death registration https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/death-registration-form
GRO 099 Civil partnership-certificate https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/civil-partnership-certificate-application-form
GRO 229 Birth certificate https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/birth-certificate-amendment-form
GRO 230 name change under 18 https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/change-name-application-form-child-under-18
GRO 231 name change over 18 https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/change-name-application-form-anyone-18-or-over
GRO 433 Civil partnership notice https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/civil-partnership-notice-form
GRO 446 Marriage notice https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/marriage-notice-form
GRO 447 Marriage index-search https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/marriage-index-search-application-form
GRO 460 Permanent officiant https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/permanent-officiant-application-form
GRO 461 Additional permanent-officiant https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/additional-permanent-officiant-application-form
GRO 464 Temporary officiant church https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/temporary-officiant-application-forms
GRO 465 Temporary officiant without church https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/temporary-officiant-application-forms
GRO 470 Humanist Temporary officiant https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/temporary-celebrant-application-form
ACR 7 adoption contact reg part 1 https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/application-form-entry-part-1-adoption-contact-register-if-you-are-over-18-years-age-and-have-been
ACR 11 adoption contact reg part 2 https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/application-form-entry-part-2-adoption-contact-register-if-you-are-over-18-years-age-and-member
ACR 14 access birth records pre 1987 https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/application-form-access-birth-records-by-person-adopted-18-december-1987-acr-14
ACR 15 access birth records post 1987 https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/application-form-access-birth-records-by-person-adopted-or-after-18-december-1987-acr-15
Record NI connections form- entry to be made https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/record-northern-ireland-connections-forms
Record NI connections form - copy of entry https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/record-northern-ireland-connections-forms

Each office can only provide certificates for a Birth, Death, Marriage or Civil Partnership when you are registering the event. You can order certificates for previously registered events in one of the following ways:

Online: www.nidirect.gov.uk
Telephone: 0300 200 7890
Post: Ask a member of staff for an application form
In Person: The General Register Office (GRO), Colby House, Stranmillis Court, Belfast BT9 5RR

GRO holds records from 1845 for non-Roman Catholic marriages and 1 January 1864 onwards for all marriages, births and deaths.

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Registration Offices are located in Ballycastle, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Limavady.