A football team that my 11year old grandson is hoping to join is requesting sight of his birth certificate. (It is in my safe)
I am reluctant to send him with this as it contains irrelevant additional information such as his first given name, father's name, that I don't wish to show to un-offical people.
Apparently "Football League" rules ask for Birth Cert - I want to challenge this and say a Passport is more than adequate.
What you you guy think?
A passport is 1st class root ID; a birth cert ain't. Birth certs haven't been acceptable ID to open bank accounts and whatnot for donkey's years. WTF this has to do with diy I cannot imagine, though. :-/
WTF this has to do with diy I cannot imagine, though.
The breadth of experience and the wilingnes to share make it a good first point for a question! (as you have proven)
I have just heard that they will accept a passport. I can only assume that asking for a birth cert is done because all kids will have one - but not all will have a passport.
You do realise that a birth certificate is a public document, and that given your grandson's name and DOB, then you, I or the football team manager would be perfectlty entitled to apply for a copy. And bear in mind also that what you've got in your safe is no more than that - a copy (read it). The original is what was signed when he was born, and that remains with the registrar.
I can't see why they would object to seeing a passport as proof of ID though instead (if you've 'lost' the birth certificate). Have you tried?
You do not need a DOB to get a copy of a birth certificate.
Called Tarquin, is he?
On Sunday 11 August 2013 18:29 DerbyBorn wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Dammit yes - if they don't accept a passport, ask them why membership of their club has more stringent rules than entry to a foreign country (and back here again afterwards).
'tis certainly getting a bit like "enquire_within" conference on CiX...
And the daft thing is that a birth certificate is no proof of identity. It records the fact that a person with a particular name was born on a given date and gives details of the parents. But there's nothing to prove that it relates to the person who claims that it's his/hers.
And unlike a birth certificate, a passport is photo ID.
my 1940 Identity Card hasn't a photo - nor did any British ones in WW2.
almost! Father was a strange bloke!
My (postwar) identity card had no photo, but I was an infant. I'm sure I remember seeing an older cousin's card with a B&W photo.
I'd think that ought to be fine. any organisation so unyeilding is probably not a good thing to belong to as its propriators are far too anally retentive for their own good. Brian
DIY law?
Brian
my father's ID card didn't have a photo either
You'd be surprised what goes on in youth football! It's a cesspit of fraud and cheating, trust me.
"Mentalguy2k8" wrote in news:kuagh3$f1m$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
Fortunately a passport is a proove of identity - a Birth Certificate isn't.
They are worried that someone may try and get Wayne Rooney into the U13 squad?
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