Book an appointment online to register the birth of your baby and get a birth certificate.
For birth registration purposes, the City Of York is not classed as part of North Yorkshire.
The appointment to register your baby with the registrar will be private and take around 30 minutes. The registrar will ask you for details for the birth entry. It is very important this information is accurate. The registration is a legal record and is difficult to correct later. There may also be a fee charged to make any corrections.
In England and Wales births must be registered at the registration office in the area where your baby was born.
If your baby was born in North Yorkshire you can register your baby by appointment, at any registration office in the county. You can obtain a birth certificate immediately. Details of fees can be found here. Please note that short free birth certificates are no longer issued.
If you are a North Yorkshire resident and your baby was born outside North Yorkshire including in the city of Leeds or Darlington hospital, please make an appointment to register your baby’s birth by declaration.
You can travel to the register office in the area where your baby was born to register the birth in person. In this case you would need to contact the other register office direct.
If your baby was born in James Cook Hospital and you live in North Yorkshire, you can either travel to Middlesbrough office or you can visit Northallerton registration office or Richmond registration office by appointment. You can register and receive the birth certificate immediately.
If your baby was in born York District Hospital and you live in North Yorkshire, you can either visit the York office or you can visit Malton or Selby registration office, by appointment. Again you can register and receive the birth certificate immediately.
You may wish to check first with the City of York registration service, as they may have earlier appointments.
If you live within the City of York area, you must register births at York registration office.
If your baby was born in Airedale Hospital and you live in North Yorkshire, you can either visit the Bradford office or you can visit Skipton registration office, by appointment. Again you can register and receive the birth certificate immediately.
If you need to register a stillbirth, please read our advice here.
If the baby's parents were not married or in a civil partnership when the child was born, both parents must attend together, to record the father's or second female parent’s details. If they are not to be recorded the mother can attend alone.
If these details are not recorded initially, it may be possible to add them at a later date.
If the following circumstances apply, please contact us for advice:
You will need to know your baby's:
We will also need the following information about the baby's parents:
Please check all information carefully when the registrar asks you to do so as later changes are difficult to make.
You will need:
Supporting documents should show the names of the baby's parents and include the date and place of birth and address. Accepted documents include:
If you cannot produce any or all of these documents it will not stop the registration going ahead.
We accept credit or debit card payment for a birth certificate.
Personal information that you are required by law to provide for a registration will be kept by the relevant local registration officer. The local registration officer will also send a copy of it to the General Register Office for England and Wales so a central record of all registrations can be maintained.
A copy of any register entry will be provided to any applicant, so long as they supply enough information to identify the entry and pay the appropriate fee. The copy can only be issued as a paper certified copy (a "certificate"). An application for a certificate can be made to either the local register office or to the General Register Office.
The General Register Office makes indexes, for the central record of registrations, publicly available in order to help members of the public identify the registration they might need. The register office also makes a local index available for this purpose.
The local register office may choose to make the information contained within local indexes available online. This will be done in order to help members of the public identify the registration they might need. Any information placed online must be done in a way that is compliant with the Data Protection Act and Human Rights Act.
Additionally, confidential information for statistical purposes which you are required by law to give to the local registration officer, and other information provided voluntarily, will be passed to the UK Statistics Authority for the preparation and supply of statistics.
As well as providing certificates, local registration officers and the General Register Office may make registration information available to other organisations, for the following purposes:
You can see further information on data held by the Registrar General on the passport office privacy information page on the government's website.
Staff at this local registration office will be able to provide further information on data held by the registration service.