FAQs

Copies of birth, death and marriage certificates which has been registered during the time period from 1960 to 2020 can be obtained from any Divisional Secretariat in the Island. The certificates which are not entered in the data system, can be obtained certified copies from the Divisional Secretariats of which the birth, marriage and death occurred. Applications can be obtained from any Divisional secretariat.

Obtain further information on registration of a marriage by submitting marriage notice before 14 days, to the Marriage Registrar of the area which the marriage parties are resided or Additional District Registrar of the Divisional Secretariat.

Applications can be forwarded to the Central Record Room of the Registrar General office, situated at Maligawatta, Colombo 10 for the registration of a birth or death occurred outside of Sri Lanka. For the registration of a birth, passports of parents, hospital records and the birth certificate issued by the relevant country should be submitted with the application. For the registration of a death, information of the deceased person and the document to confirm the cause of death should be forwarded.

Applications should be forwarded to the Head office of the Registrar General’s Department, situated at 234/A 3 Denzil Kobbekaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla for re-registration of a birth of an adopted child. Birth certificates of parents, marriage certificate, certificate on adoption and if the birth of the child has been registered earlier, the same birth certificate should be forwarded for re-registration of a birth.

Applications should be forwarded to the Central Record Room of the Register General’s Department situated at Maligawatta,Colombo 10 if the adoption has been registered before 01.01.2013 , and to the Head office of the Registrar General’s Department ,situated at 234/A 3 Denzil Kobbekaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla ,if the adoption has been registered after the date of 01.01.2013.

Applications should be forwarded to the Head office of the Registrar General’s Department, situated at 234/A 3 Denzil Kobbekaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla or translators who are mentioned in the web site.

Applications should be forwarded to the Divisional Secretariat which is belonging to the place of which correction and alternation of the information in births, marriages and deaths entries were done.

Obtain further details from the Additional District Registrar of the Divisional Secretariat.

• Shall be resided in Sri Lanka 04 days before the handing over the marriage notice.
• Pass port or National Identity Card or birth certificate for confirmation of the age.
• Required documents for the confirmation of civil status.(If a widow, death certificate of the spouse /divorce certificate/ bachelor certificate)

Marriage notice should be submitted to the registrar of the temporary residential area.

Submit relevant documents to the Land Registry  where the  land is located .The places where the offices are located  are displayed in the web-site. 

Submit relevant documents to the Land/ Title  Registry  where the  land is located.  The places where the offices are located  are displayed in the web-site.

• Caveat injunction should be in two copies
• The relationship to the caveator relevant to the land or the affidavit of the caveator for the confirmation of the title.
• A certificate issued by a lawyer in relation to that
• When the caveator is not the owner of the land , form X for handed over to the owners of the land and stamped envelopes
• When the caveator is a holder of attorney license , certified copy of the original copy of the attorney license.

All local and foreign attorney licenses written and attested can be submitted for registration to any zonal office of the Registrar General’s department or district Assistant Registrar General’s office.  

A copy of a deed can be obtained by submitting an application for obtaining copies of certificates (A32(B) with prescribed fees, to the office which the duplicates are handed over by the Notary Public who was written and attested the deed.

Can be obtained by filling the application A32(A) relevant to obtain a copies of extracts with prescribed fees to the Land Registry where the land is located.

• Avoid laminating the certificate 
• Avoid folding and crushing the certificate 
• Alternating of such information or writing something in the title certificate shall not be done 
• Avoid to handing   the certificate to  irrelevant persons 
• Protect from damages caused by insects

** If your title certificate will be misplaced or destroyed in a manner mentioned above by any means, you have to obtain a new title certificate subject to the relevant fees. For this purpose, you should contact the Title Registrar relevant to the area in which the land located.

A copy of the cadastral map can be applied by forwarding the information on title certificate to the Survey Department. 

Copies of folios can be obtained by forwarding the information on the title certificate through an application to the Title Registration office which the title certificate has been issued.

All the transactions after receiving of the same certificate should be done only through the title certificate. All post transactions should be carried out by the instruments which have been published in the gazette extra ordinary No.2308/27 and dated 01-12-2023 .

The owner of the land should prepare a plan of sub-division or amalgamation by forwarding  the title certificate to a licensed surveyor for Bim Saviya survey .The hard copy  of the plan prepared in that manner and title certificate forwarded to the licensed surveyor and an instrument of sub-division should be prepared. The same instrument should  submit by paying relevant registration fees to the relevant Title Registration office with the title certificate and the soft copy of the plan.(Section 36 of the Title Registration Act, No.21 of 1998) 

Note 

• If sales agreements are registered relevant to the title certificate, the same agreement should be cancelled before registration of sub-division.(According to the revision of regulations No.2308 and dated 01.12.2022) 
• Accordingly, in this case the co-ownership cannot be kept for the land parcel which are partitioned or  amalgamated, except for a road or an access road. 

In relation to a property of a registered owner died intestate , nomination of new heirs are done by publishing a new title gazette after the heirs gone to the Commissioner of Land Title Settlement office of the relevant area which the relevant land is situated and confirmation of their ownership. Title certificates are issued for the new heirs on the schedules forwarded to the Title Registration office by the Commissioner General of Land Title Settlement relevant to the same gazette.( Section 55 of the Title Registration Act, No.21 of 1998) 

• Amendments can be done according to a request made to the Title Registrar who is belonging to the area the land is situated (by forwarding relevant written documents on the change) as per Section 58(1) of the Title Registration Act.
• Nota Bene- If the error has been occurred in the publishing of the gazette, first it should be informed to the relevant Regional Title Registration office.

According to the provision 31 of the Title Registration Act, a request shall made by the relevant owner of the land to the relevant Title Registration office at the end of a 10 years period of the registration of title certificate. Subsequently, the schedule prepared by the Commissioner General of Land Title Settlement forwarded to the Title Registration office , the same title certificate will be converted to a first class title according to the approval of the Registrar General of Titles.

By forwarding original copy of the police complaint forwarded , requesting letter and an affidavit to the relevant title registration office by paying relevant fees.

Your life interest or post heirs can be registered under this.

If a land granted you under a state grant, it will be subjected to a conditions of the Land Development Ordinance further more. An ability to carry out post transactions of such land by based on the forms introduced by the State Land Ordinance subject to the approval of the relevant divisional Secretary .