Christmas & New Year Opening Times
The register office will be closed from 5pm on Tuesday 24 December, 2024 and will re-open on Thursday 2 January, 2025.
If you have an enquiry regarding an emergency burial or a wedding for someone who is terminally ill which needs to take place prior to the 2 January, please call 01902 552999 between 8am and 12pm, excluding Christmas Day. Please note our emails will not be monitored during this period.
The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 came into force on 28 May 2024. Here you can see the new table of fees
Registration Services are located at the front of the civic centre, our appointment waiting area is in the Customer Services reception area outside our registration interview rooms numbers 13 to 20. You can access certificate ordering services on this page and also book your registration/notice of marriage/civil partnership appointments. We do have courtesy telephones and computers in the civic centre should you wish to use them to access our services. Alternatively you can call Registration Services on 01902 551234 between 9am – 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am – 4.30pm on Fridays. You can also email your enquiry directly to our team at register.office@wolverhampton.gov.uk
New death certification reforms will become statutory from Monday 9th September 2024.
The new death certification reforms require an independent review to be carried out for all deaths in England and Wales, without exception. This will either be provided by independent scrutiny by a medical examiner or by investigation by a coroner.
More information regarding the Medical Examiner Service can be found under Downloads.
If the death occurred in Wolverhampton you will need to arrange an appointment to attend at the civic centre to complete the registration, as soon as the Medical Examiner or Coroner have spoken with you to confirm the cause of death and have let you know that the medical cause of death certificate or Coroner’s paperwork has been scanned to the register office.
Legally, a death should be registered within 5 days of the register office receiving the medical cause of death certificate from the Medical Examiner at New Cross Hospital.
This may be extended if the Coroner is investigating the death.
Death registration appointments will be carried out face to face and you will need to attend at the register office, civic centre, St Peter’s Square, Wolverhampton.
The quickest and easiest way to book an appointment is online.
Alternatively, you can book an appointment by calling our customer services team on 01902 551234.