Title | A Study on the Improvement of Family Relations Registration System with a Focus on the Certificate by Registration | ||
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Date | 2020.03.13 | ||
Files | A Study on the Improvement of Family Relations Registration System with a Focus on the Certificate by Registration.pdf | ||
A Study on the Improvement of Family Relations Registration System with a Focus on the Certificate by Registration
Since the enactment of the「Act on Registration of Family Relations」on January 1, 2008, the area with the most frequent revisions in the family relations registration system is the field of certification by registration. Providing personal identification information in the form of certificates by extracting necessary matters from the records of an individual family relationship register is the basic operation of the certification system by registration. The fact that the most frequently revised field since the enactment of the「Act on Registration of Family Relations」is regulations related to “certification”, suggests that, in terms of the family relations registration system, the area that draws the greatest public attention, thus playing the most influential part, is the “certification of identity relationship such as the birth, marriage and death of an individual”. Accordingly, this report suggests the following three proposals as an improvement related to the operation of the certification system by registration. Firstly, after reviewing the matters that can be selected as the contents of the specific certification by registration, the following suggestions were made: ① The applicant shall be able to choose whether or not to include the deceased, registration base, or the place of family register in the specific certificate; ② The applicant shall be able to select the persons listed on the certificate to be issued as a specific certificate; ③ The applicant may choose whether or not to include a record of name change, gender change, correction history, past matters, etc., and be issued a specific certificate with such information; ④ A specific certificate shall be issued by selecting a past marriage relationship, adoption relationship, or adoptive relationship, etc., as the condition to describe the phrase limiting the period of proof; ⑤ Establish a new integrated specific certificate or use-specific certificate on the premise of law revision. As of December 27, 2019, the certificate by registration can be issued in English, and therefore the following suggestions were made: ① Expand the matters that can be proved in English; ② Review the policy so as to allow certificates to be issued in languages other than English. Lastly, emphasis was placed on the need for legal provisions restricting third parties who excessively require detailed certificates, and or use the acquired personal identification information for other purposes. |