Book an appointment online to register the birth of your baby and get a birth certificate.
You need to register the birth of your baby within 42 days of the date of birth. You can find information about the legal requirements for registering a birth on the government website. This includes details about who can register a birth which depends on whether the parents were married or in a civil partnership at the time of the birth.
If your baby was born in North Yorkshire, you can book an appointment to register the birth at any North Yorkshire registration office.
To book your appointment online, you will need to tell us your:
You need to contact us to change or cancel an appointment.
Please contact us for advice if any of the following circumstances apply:
The fastest way to register the birth and get a birth certificate is by contacting the registration service in the area where your baby was born.
If your baby was not born in North Yorkshire or at one of the nearby hospitals we have arrangements with, and you register the birth with us, this is called a birth declaration. The appointment takes longer, and you will not get a birth certificate at the appointment. The registration service for the area your baby was born in will post a certificate to you later.
We have arrangements with certain hospitals outside North Yorkshire to register births at those hospitals at some of our registration offices.
These hospitals are:
If you are a North Yorkshire resident and your baby was born at James Cook Hospital, you can register the birth at:
If you want to register the birth at any of our other registration offices, this will be a birth declaration.
If you are a North Yorkshire resident and your baby was born at York District Hospital, you can register the birth at:
If you want to register the birth at any of our other registration offices, this will be a birth declaration.
If you are a North Yorkshire resident and your baby was born at Airedale Hospital, you can register the birth at:
If you want to register the birth at any of our other registration offices, this will be a birth declaration.
You can check who can come to the appointment on the government website.
From Monday 9 November 2026, you need to bring:
Your appointment will not go ahead if you do not bring identification.
You can use one of the following documents:
If you do not have any of the documents in the primary list, you must bring two of the following documents:
When registering the birth, you need to know the:
We will ask you to make a verbal declaration that the information in the registration is correct.
If you later need to make any changes or corrections to this information, you may need to pay a fee. After you have registered the birth, you can only change your baby’s first name by Certificate of Naming if the change is within 12 months of the registration.
Read our registration privacy policy.