Section 51, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

(1) The Authority shall, on production to a Registration Officer of such evidence as appears to him to be satisfactory, cause the birth outside Sierra Leone of the child of a citizen domiciled in Sierra Leone to be registered in the Register of Births if - (a) there was not at the time of the birth a system of registration of births in the place where the birth occurred or a system that applied to such child; or (b) it is not possible to obtain copies of or extracts from civil records of the birth. (2) This section applies, with any necessary modifications to stillbirths.