The system of state authorities that register civil status acts

The paper analyzes the system of state authorities that register civil status acts. The purpose of this research is to study the powers of public authorities in the field of state registration of civil status acts and to identify some problems of legislation and law enforcement in this area. In the course of the research, general and special methods of scientific cognition are used: historical, comparative, formal-legal, dialectical, etc. Results: it is concluded the system of authorities that register civil status acts are included in the state information system of civil status records as one of its components, and it is also shown that it is inappropriate to expand the scope of authorities whose powers include state registration of civil status acts.