certificate of registration of birth

14:47 Jun 4, 2019 

I think every birth certificate is really a certificate of the registration of the birth. I don't think any country has one certificate of the birth and another certificate of the registration. It is one and the same thing, regardless of what it is called.

10:26 Jun 4, 2019 

In principle these two terms could have referred to different documents, depending on Singapore's registration procedures; in fact, they don't seem to. But as always, you can't tell until you look.

10:19 Jun 4, 2019 

No, I don't think they're translations. Singapore was a British colony from 1819 until the 1960s and its administrative documentation is in English, which is the country's lingua franca and one of its four official languages.

10:12 Jun 4, 2019 

Surely the two terms are just variants of different translations that have been so often used, so have now become two common norms.

06:30 Jun 4, 2019 

In Singapore the terms "certificate of registration of birth" and "birth certificate" seem to be used interchangeably to refer to the same document:

"3 The Certificate of Registration of Birth is prepared in 2 copies. One copy is retained by the Registrar while the other copy is laminated and issued to the informant. The fee for a birth certificate is S$18.00. For births registered at the respective maternity hospitals, these centres may charge an additional administrative fee on top of the fee for a birth certificate"
https://www.ica.gov.sg/docs/default-source/ica/stats/annual-...

"8. For a certificate of registration of birth $18."
https://sso.agc.gov.sg/SL/RBDA1937-R1?DocDate=20141001&ViewT...

If the copy originally issued to the informant is lost a certified copy can be obtained for S$40. They call this a birth extract.

22:49 Jun 3, 2019 

What is it that makes this different to a birth certificate? What is it for exactly? And what is written/printed on it?