These rules are issued in the exercise of powers conferred by section 16 of the Registration of Persons Act by the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government.
The purpose of the law is to determine the legal regime of civil status in Niger. It institutes a civil status system, which is the set of qualities inherent to a person that the law takes into consideration in order to attach legal effects to that person. The law governs declarations of civil status facts.
This Act provides for the notification and registration of births and deaths and other matters incidental thereto.