Birth registration

Temporary closure

3 May 2024

Hastings Register Office has had to close due to water supply issue affecting the town centre.

If you have an appointment in Hastings today, we will contact you to re-arrange your appointment.

Water supply issue - St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex (southernwater.co.uk)

We apologise for any inconvenience. 

All other register offices are unaffected by the water supply issue.

• Birth registration
• Where to register a birth
• Opposite-sex parents
• Same-sex female parents
• Same-sex male parents
• Other people who can register a birth
• What you need to tell the registrar
• Birth certificates
• Child Benefit
• Re-registering a birth
• Changing a child's forenames
• Support for new parents
• Perjury warning
• Privacy Notice

All births should be registered within 42 days.

Birth registration interviews are in person at our register offices.

• Please arrive no more than 10 minutes before your appointment.
• Our offices are small, only those essential to the registration should attend. Where the parents are married or in a civil partnership, only one parent can sign the register.

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• Register a birth (gov.uk)

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