Preamble, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

THE NATIONAL CIVIL REGISTRATION ACT, 2016 Being an Act to provide for the amendment and consolidation of the laws relating to the compulsory registration of citizens and non-citizens resident in Sierra Leone, to provide for the issuance of identity cards, to provide for the establishment of the National Civil Registration Authority responsible for the registration of births, adoptions, deaths, marriages, divorces and nullities throughout Sierra Leone and to provide for other related matters. [ ] ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. Date of commencement. SIGNED this 26th day of July, 2016. DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA, President. LS The National Registration Act, 2008 (Act No. 4 of 2008) The Birth and Death Registration Act, 1983 (Act No. 11 of 1983) Section 6-10 of the Non-Citizens (Registration, Immigration and Expulsion) Act, Section 18 of the Adoption Act, 1989 (Act No. 9 of 1989) Part III and Part IV of the Registration of Customary Marriage and Divorce Act, 2009 (Act No. 9 of 2009) PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. GAZETTE NO. 37 OF 4TH AUGUST, 2016. Passed in Parliament this 30th day of June 2016, in the year of our Lord two thousand and Sixteen. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament. No. 14 National Civil Registration Act 2016 PART I – PRELIMINARY