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 the official entering the document in the register.

12. The forms of the records, and the abstracts of information mentioned in subdivision (a) of Section 4 shall be prescribed by the Central Bureau of Vital Statistics. The said bureau shall make public these instructions as soon as its organization shall be completed.

13. All the registers of local bureaus and all personal records kept by the provincial bureaus shall be made in duplicate; one copy of all registers kept in the local bureaus shall remain on file with the respective bureaus, the other shall be transmitted at the close of the calendar year, or at the latest by the 15th of January next ensuing, to the provincial bureau. The personal records shall be similarly transmitted by the provincial bureaus to the Central Bureau.

14. Local bureaus shall immediately report to the provincial bureau any alterations made in the register subsequent to transmission of the original record and shall send a copy of the page of the register containing the alteration.

15. Entries made in the register may be contested by the interested parties only by proper proceedings in a court of law.

16. An entry made in the register may be corrected solely by an order of the court, excepting that if an error be the result of an obvious oversight it may be corrected by an order of the officers intrusted with supervisory powers.

17. Registers of vital statistics are open to the inspection of all parties, who have the right to