Who has obligation to register death for deceased persons without any relative in Vietnam?

Who has obligation to register death for deceased persons without any relative in Vietnam?

According to Clause 1, Article 33 of the Law on Civil Status 2014, time limit and responsibility for death registration are as follows:

1. Within 15 days after the date a person dies, his/her spouse, child, parent or another relative shall register his/her death; for a deceased person without any relative, a representative of a related agency, organization or person shall register his/her death.

Thus, according to the above regulations in Vietnam, for deceased person without any relative, a representative of a related agency, organization or person shall register death. So your neighbor will be represented by the rrepresentative of a related agency, organization or person is responsible for declaring the death.

What do death registration procedures in Vietnam comprise?

Pursuant to Article 34 of the 2014 Civil Status Law, death registration procedures are prescribed as follows:

1. Persons responsible for death registration shall submit declarations, made according to a set form, and death notices or other substitute papers to the civil status registration agency.

2. Immediately after receiving papers specified in Clause 1 of this Article, if seeing that the death declaration is proper, the justice and civil status officer shall record the death declaration contents in the civil status book and together with the death declarant sign in the civil status book and report to the chairperson of the commune-level People's Committee to issue an extract to the death declarant.

The justice and civil status officer shall close civil status information of the deceased person in the electronic civil status database.

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