Hierarchy
Functions
- Appointing, supervising, and administering Birth, Marriage, and Death Registrars
- Supervising and administering the activities of the District Registrar Division in Divisional Secretariat
- Supervising and administering the offices of Divisional Registrars
- Supervising archieve /record room activities
- Registering birth, marriage, and death certificates, issuing copies, and conservation
- Registering court adoption orders, issuing adoption certificates, and after obtaining applications for registering such births, and receiving approval, forwarding those orders to the relevant Divisional Secretariat
- Issuing orders to the District Registrar Divisions of Divisional Secretariat to record divorces granted by absolute decrees from District courts in the relevant marriage certificates
- Granting approval for the registration of marriages between Sri Lankans a foreign national
- Registering Churches for the solemnization of marriages
- Issuing translated copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates
- Registering death, making amendments, and issuing certified copies for Tri-Forces and police offices killed in action
- Restoring damaged birth, marriage, and death records
