1727, June 17, 2015. The law establishes an obligation to hold documents, but it does not establish
a penalty for not holding documents.
216. Information gathered through interviews held with the researchers at Universidad Diego
Portales and Universidad Alberto Hurtado during the month of October 2015 accounted for cases
of intergenerational lack of documents of identity, highlighting the case of an adult member of an
indigenous group who was illiterate and had not been able to attend school, due to being unable to
obtain a birth certificate and subsequent documents of national identity, given that both his parents
and grandparents lacked documents of identity of their own.
217. See also, http://www.registrocivil.cl/PortalOI/home.html.
218. Decreto No 26, October 7, 1924, available at: http://www.registrocivil.cl/transparencia/marcoNormativo/DTO_LEY_26.pdf.
219. Decreto No. 1094, July 14, 1975, available at: http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=6483
&idVersion=2011-04-08&buscar=1094.
220. Law 4808 February 10, 1930, amended October 20, 1999, available at: http://www.leychile.
cl/Navegar?idNorma=24928&idParte=&idVersion=1999-10-20.
221. As established by Article 3 and 4 of Law 19477, October 19, 1996, available at: http://www.
leychile.cl/Consulta/Navegar?idNorma=30844&idParte=0.
222. UNICEF website, Information by country: Chile- Statistics, available at: http://www.unicef.
org/infobycountry/chile_statistics.html.
223. See also, https://www.registrocivil.cl/PortalOI/Herramientas/PreguntasFrecuentes/Material_Informativo/PDF/nacimiento.pdf.
224. As cited in reply by the Legal Division of the Civil Registry and Identification Service to
freedom of information request, no. 1727, June 17, 2015.
225. Reply by the Legal Division of the Civil Registry and Identification Service to freedom of
information request, no. 1727, June 17, 2015.
226. Ibid.
227. Article 12 reads: “The person affected by [an] act or resolution of administrative authority
which deprives him of his Chilean nationality or which denies [desconoce] it, can appeal, on his own
behalf or through anyone in his name, within the period of thirty days, to the Supreme Court, which
shall take cognizance of it as a jury and in plenary tribunal. The interposition of the recourse will
suspend the effects of the act or resolution appealed.”
228. Corte Suprema, Sentencia September 1989, Fallos del Mes N.° 370 as cited by Ribera Neumann, “La nacionalidad chilena luego de la reforma constitucional de 2005,” 8n15.
229. Corte Suprema de Chile, Rol 9.168-2012, Rol 9.168-2012, Rol 7.580-2012, and Rol 5.482-2013
as cited in Macarena Rodriguez Aatero and Delia Valdés Riesco, Nacionalidad en la Jurisprudencia
de la Corte Suprema, Dirección Estudios, Corte Suprema de Chile, available at: http://decs.pjud.cl/
Documentos/Academicos/Nacionalidad_en_la_Jurisprudencia_de_la_Corte_Suprema.pdf.
230. Universidad Diego Portales, Centro de Derechos Humanos, Informe Anual 2014,
op. cit., 359.
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