Section 2Sec./Art. 2

Declaration of Policy. It is the policy of the State to establish an effective system for providing copies of civil registry documents to all its citizens. The State likewise promotes efficiency and economy by removing duplicitous processes and requirements involving the issuance and use of those documents. Towards this end, the State shall enforce the permanent validity of the certificates of live birth, death, and marriage issued, signed, certified, or authenticated by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and its predecessor, the National Statistics Office (NSO), and the local civil registries, and the reports of birth, death, and marriage registered and issued by the Philippine Foreign Service Posts and transmitted to the PSA.