Cemetery

The cemetery is located in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre - chaussée de Stockel 301 and 331.

It is open to the public every day

• from 15/11 to 28/02 : from 8.00 am to 4.00 pm
• from 01/03 to 14/11 : from 8.00 am to 4.45 pm

The types of plots vary from type (plot in open ground, plot into prefabricated vaults or in columbarium) and from their duration (5 years, 15 years or 50 years).

The table hereafter mention the fees actually in effect.

Death

The death certificate is drawn up by the Registry officer from the place of death on presentation of a death notification delivered by a parent of the dead person or by a third person who is able to give all the information necessary to write this certificate.

The death notification is supplemented by the doctor who certified the death.

It is necessary to show the identity card and if necessary the booklet of marriage of the deceased.

A doctor appointed by the Registrar has to see the deceased before any transfer of the body.

Burial - Cremation

The burial cannot take place before the expiry of a 24-hour deadline after death. In the same way, it can be made only on authorization delivered by the Registrar.

Any burial takes place at the cemetery on the working days except Saturdays afternoon.

The body of the deceased is transported by hearse pertaining at private firms (undertaking).

The body of the deceased is transported by hearse belonging to private firms (undertakers).

The cremation is authorized if the deceased has expressed the formal will or at the request of a third person duly qualified to provide for the funeral.

Delivery of birth, marriage and death certificates

The publication of the registers of births, marriages and deaths is exclusively regulated by article 45 of the civil code.

This provision stipulates in particular that: "Only the public authorities, the person whom the act concerns, his/her spouse or surviving spouse, his/her legal representative, his/her ascendants, his/her descendants, his/her heirs, their notary and their lawyer can obtain a certified copy of an act of the marital status going back to less than one hundred years, or an extract of this act mentioning the filiation of the people whom the act concerns.

The president of the Magistrates' Court can, on verbal or written request of any person justifying of a family, scientific or of any other legitimate interest, authorize, without another form of lawsuit nor expenses, to carry out given research or to have delivered a certified copy or an extract mentioning the filiation of the people whom the act concerns ".

Various extracts or certified copies of acts of marital status can be obtained, either by coming to the service, or by sending a written request with indication of the recipient :

• Ask for birth certificate
• Ask for marriage certificate
• Ask for divorce certificate
• Ask for death certificate

Cost : 5,00 eur

Last will concerning the kind of burial

Last will concerning the kind of burial :

• burial
• dispersion or conservation of ashes after cremation.

Any person can inform, of his/her own accord and by written the Registrar of his/her municipality of his/her last wills as for the mode of burial. This communication is consigned to the municipal register of the population.

In his/her declaration, the declarant can choose between the following possibilities :

• the burial of the mortal remainders
• the cremation followed by the dispersion of ashes on the cemetery lawn of dispersion
• the cremation followed by the dispersion of ashes in the North Sea
• the cremation followed by the burial of ashes in the enclosure of the cemetery
• the cremation followed by the placement of ashes in the columbarium of the cemetery
• the cremation followed by the dispersion of ashes to a place other than the cemetery or the North Sea
• the cremation followed by the burial of ashes to a place other than the cemetery
• the cremation followed by the burial of ashes to a place other than the cemetery

The forms of declaration are available at the Population service.

Marriages

The new legislation (law of the 04.05.1999 made legal on 01.01.2000) has put an end to the formality consisting in publishing the banns of marriage to replace it by the declaration of marriage.

The statement is made either by the couple, or by one of the future spouses with a legalized procuration of the absent future spouse that proves his/her consent to the marriage.

This declaration is acted by the Registrar of the municipality where at least one of the two engaged spouses is recorded.

Several documents must be added to the declaration of marriage :

• a certified copy of the birth certificate, an act of notoriety delivered by the Justice of Peace of the birth or residence place and approved by the Court of First Authority, and if this last cannot be produced, a declaration sworn to make by the engaged couple at the time of the marriage,
• proof of identity. In theory, it is a copy of the indentity card of the engaged couple or a copy of the legal document which replaces it,
• a proof of inscription in the register of the population, the register of the foreigners or the register of waiting or a proof of the current residence,
• a proof of nationality,
• a proof of state of single person or if necessary, a proof of dissolution or cancellation of the former marriages,
• any other authentic document revealing that the legal conditions for the celebration of the marriage were met, for example the certificate of habit, the judgement of exemption of the condition of age, the reduction of the time of declaration of the marriage, etc.

To that end, the law of 03.12.2005 simplifies notably the formalities to achieve by the future husband and wife to make up their marriage file : in concrete termps, they do not have to give evidence or copie anymore whose information is alreadu available in the population register or in the foreigners register or that can be obtained by exchanging information between municipalities. This simplification of the steps to be achieved by the future married couple came into effect on 01.02.2006.

The law of 13.02.2003 made legal on 01.06.2003 has allowed the marriage of persons of same sex. 

The time of declaration of marriage is 14 days.

The marriages are celebrated every day in the morning from Monday to Saturday included.

The services for the celebrations of marriage are free on Friday and with an admission charge (50,00 EUR) on the others days.

The booklet of marriage costs 25 EUR.

Birth

The birth notification is made by the Registrar of the birthplace within 15 days after the date of the childbirth.

The birth notification must be made with the help of the production of the statistical form "birth notification of an alive child" (model 1) supplemented if necessary by the booklet of marriage.

At the time of the declaration the following forms are delivered to the declarant(s) :

• the certificate for the maternity benefit
• the certificate for indemnity of pregnancy and/or rest within the framework of the sickness and disability insurance
• the obligatory certificate of vaccination against polio.

Nationality

The code of nationality offers two ways to obtain the Belgian nationality, namely: attribution and acquisition.

The granting of Belgian nationality by attribution takes place either automatically or by means of a statement made by one or two parents.

Nationality is allotted either :

• because of the nationality of the father or mother
• because of the adoption
• because of the birth in Belgium
• by the collective effect of an act of acquisition

The acquisition of Belgian nationality supposes a voluntary step of the very person; the initiative belongs to the applicant.

Nationality is acquired either:

• by declaration of nationality
• by option of nationality
• because of the spouse's Belgian nationality
• because of the state possession of Belgian
• by naturalization (minimum age 18 years, main home in Belgium minimum 3 years and 2 years for the refugees or stateless people).