REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
LAW
ON THE POPULATION REGISTER
Article 1. Objectives of the Law
This Law shall regulate: the establishment of a Population
Register of the Republic of Lithuania, the registration and
liquidation of the Register, the background information presented
for registration and the procedures for their utilization, and
the rights and liabilities of persons who provide and use the
information.
Article 2. Population Register of the Republic of
Lithuania
The Population Register shall consist of the individual
records of all Lithuanian citizens, and of foreign nationals and
stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of
Lithuania. These records shall be kept in the data bank in
accordance with a uniform system of indices.
The purpose of the Population Register is to collect and
compile information concerning the distribution and composition
of the population, the scope and direction of migration, labor
resources, their utilization, and other social information, as
well as to constantly update, process, and provide this to the
institutions of State authority and government of the Republic of
Lithuania, and to other legal and natural persons in the manner
prescribed by law.
The Population Register of the Republic of Lithuania shall
be comprised of the central population register and local
population registers. The latter shall be subdivisions of the
central population register. The Population Register shall
provide the opportunity to obtain information concerning the
population according to every numerical equivalent of personal
data and combinations thereof.
Article 3. The Founding and Supervision of the Population
Register
The Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall be the
founder of the Population Register. The regulations of the
Population Register shall be approved by the Government of the
Republic of Lithuania in pursuance of this Law.
The Population Register shall be supervised by the
Department of Statistics under the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania. The Department shall methodize the regulation of the
Register in the Republic of Lithuania and in its administrative
territorial divisions, as well as the collection of data for the
Register.
Article 4. Data Compiled in the Population Register
Each resident (person) must register the following data in
the register:
1. Personal Identification Number:
1) identification number;
2) name;
3) surname;
4) personal identification number of his or her father;
5) personal identification number of his or her mother;
6) personal identification number of his or her spouse;
7) personal identification number(s) of his or her
child (children);
8) family size;
place of Residence:
1) former place(s) of residence;
2) current place of residence;
3) city, city district office, street, house number,
flat number;
4) district;
5) rural district;
6) village;
7) date of arrival;
8) date of departure;
9) place of departure;
3. Citizenship, Native Language, Passport, Military Service:
1) citizenship;
2) date of granting (or loss) of citizenship;
3) native language;
4) passport series and number;
5) place of issue;
6) date of issue;
7) conscript;
4. Demographic Data:
1) sex;
2) place of birth;
3) date of birth;
4) marital status;
5) date of death;
6) cause of death;
5. Occupation:
1) employment (trade);
2) profession or post;
3) date of employment;
4) date of discharge from work (registration at labour
exchange);
6. Education:
1) educational institution;
2) date of entry;
3) date of graduation;
7. Training, Profession:
1) training;
2) profession;
8. Information Concerning Pension:
1) type of pension;
2) date of assignment (or loss) of pension.
Information which is not specified in part 1 of this article
shall not be recorded in the Register.
The data bank of the Population Register may be used without
charge by other state data banks concerning: education, health,
employment, social security, passports, municipal economy, and
taxes.
Article 5. Data Required in the Population Register
Individual data shall be recorded in the Population Register
only on the basis of the documents presented.
Data for the Population Register shall be presented by:
1) passport agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs -
if the data concerns personal identity, citizenship, passport, or
place of residence;
2) the Ministry of National Defence - if the data concerns
military conscription;
3) civil registration agencies - if the data concerns
birth, death, marriage, or divorce;
4) employers, state data banks, and other institutions
supervising the registration of the population - if the data
concerns employment, education, or profession;
5) institutions of secondary, professional and higher
education - if the data concerns education, training, or the
acquired profession;
6) social welfare institutions, social security
institutions, and other institutions responsible for the
granting of pensions - if the data concerns pensions.
Emigration and immigration agencies shall furnish all the
data concerning emigrants and immigrants.
The data specified above shall be furnished in accordance
with the regulations of the Population Register. Officials who
present erroneous data, who do not present the required data on
time, or who fail to present the required data at all, shall be
held responsible in accordance with the procedure established by
the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
Article 6. Personal Identification Number
The personal identification number shall be an individual
sequence of decimal numbers assigned to a person by the agency of
Population Registration. The personal identification number shall
be used for personal identification, and for establishing
interrelations between separate data banks.
The structure of the personal identification number shall be
as follows:
the first number shall represent the person's sex and
century of birth,
the second and the third numbers shall represent the last
two numbers of the year of birth,
the fourth and the fifth numbers shall represent the month
of birth,
the sixth and the seventh numbers shall represent the day of
birth,
the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth numbers shall
represent the sequence of registration of persons born on the
same day,
the eleventh number shall represent the control number of
the ten preceding numbers.
The personal identification number shall be recorded in the
passport, birth certificate, state social security certificate,
driver's licence, and other personal documents.
Article 7. Utilization of the Data Recorded in the
Population Register
A council shall be formed to manage issues concerning the
preparation of data to be recorded in the Population Register,
its utilization, and its protection. The formation of the
council, as well as its regulations, shall be approved by the
Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
The utilization of data recorded in the Population Register
shall be as follows:
1) data presented in summary reports may be used by all
legal and natural persons of the Republic of Lithuania;
2) data collected in the lists of voters, preschool and
school children, military conscripts or alternative service
conscripts, specialists, and unemployed persons may be used by
State government institutions and local government institutions
(if the data concerns residents of their respective territories);
3) upon purposive requisition, lists shall be presented in
accordance with the type of activities of the agencies in
question, and shall only be provided upon written decision of an
appropriate body of power;
4) each resident of the Republic of Lithuania shall have the
right to utilize personal data which concerns him or her.
Article 8. The Powers of the Supervisors of the
Population Register
If erroneous data was recorded in the Population Register,
the Department of Statistics must correct the entry on the basis
of the applicant's documents.
The Department of Statistics shall be prohibited from
correcting entries (data) in the presented documents, and from
requiring the bearer to do the same.
Employees of the Population Register agency must sign a
pledge promising not to violate the requirements under this Law.
Employees of the Population Register agency who violate the
requirements shall be held responsible under the laws of the
Republic of Lithuania.
Article 9. The Rights of Residents of the Republic of
Lithuania in the Utilization of Population
Register Data
Residents of the Republic of Lithuania shall have the right
to obtain a certificate containing their personal data. The
certificate shall be legally valid.
Upon presention of identification documents, citizens of the
Republic of Lithuania, as well as foreign nationals and
stateless persons who are permanently residing in the Republic of
Lithuania, shall have the right to check their personal data in
the Population Register, and, upon finding errors, to request
their correction.
Disputes concerning the canceling or altering of the data of
the Population Register shall be resolved in court.
Article 10. Publication of Data in the Population
Register
Population data recorded in the Register may be published
only in summary reports.
Article 11. Financing of the Population Register
Resources from the State budget of Lithuania shall be used
for the founding and supervision of the Register. The Department
of Statistics, which is responsible for the supervision of the
Population Register, may accumulate resources by providing data
for a set cost in the manner established by this Law.
Article 12. Liquidation of the Register
The Population Register shall be liquidated in accordance
with the resolution of the Supreme Council of the Republic of
Lithuania.
Bronislovas Kuzmickas
Vice President
Supreme Council
Republic of Lithuania
Vilnius
January 23, 1992
No. I-2237