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§ Section 32 Federal Registration Act (BMG)

§ Section 17 (3) sentence 3 Federal Registration Act (BMG)

You haveto stay in hospital for more than three months and have no home in Germany? Then you must register the place of your stay with the registration authorities.

Anyone who is admitted to hospitals, nursing homes or other facilities that serve to care for people in need of care or disabled people or to provide home education does not need to register as long as they are registered for another home in Germany. Anyone who is not registered for a home in Germany must register within two weeks as soon as their stay exceeds three months.

For persons who cannot fulfill their registration obligation in person (e.g. due to infirmity), the managers of the facilities must notify the registration authority responsible for the location of the facility of the admission within two weeks. The persons concerned must be informed of this.

For persons for whom a guardian has been appointed who can determine the place of residence, the duty of notification is incumbent on the guardian.

If an authority determines that it is necessary in an individual case to avert a significant and present danger, to prosecute criminal offences or to clarify the fate of missing persons and accident victims, hospitals, homes and similar institutions must provide the competent authority with information from their records. The information includes surnames, first names, date and place of birth and, in the case of birth abroad, also the state, nationalities, addresses as well as the date of admission and date of discharge.

in case of registration proof of identity

longer than three months in hospital, nursing home or similar and no home in Germany available

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Anyone who is admitted to hospitals, nursing homes or other facilities that serve to care for persons in need of care or disabled persons or to provide home education does not need to register as long as they are registered for another home in Germany. Anyone who is not registered for a home in Germany must register within two weeks as soon as their stay exceeds three months.

For registration in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the contact points are the registration authorities in the district-free cities, large district-affiliated cities, offices and non-official municipalities.

Hospitals, nursing homes, similar institutions, as well as persons requiring medical treatment, nursing care or staying in educational institutions (not staff), registration authority in whose jurisdiction the facility is located