State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 2466 – Birth registration of children who died before registration – If the dead body of any new born child is produced before the official of Civil Registration services, the child with information that child died after birth, he shall enter the birth record, with all the declarations prescribed in this Code; declaring, however, in the same record, the child was produced to him without life. § Sole paragraph – Immediately, the record of the death shall be made in the relevant register of deaths.