Legal tip 1336. What is Padrón in Spain?
Monday, October 26, 2015 @ 12:43 PM
Padrón is a local record of residency in a certain municipality. Residency needs to be proved in order to get registered.
Info from the Statistics National Institute:
The Municipal Register is the administrative register of residents of the municipality. Its data constitutes proof of residence in the municipality and habitual residence in the same.
Everyone who lives in Spain is obliged to register in the Register of the municipality where he usually resides. Anyone living in several municipalities, must register only where he is living longer each year.
Registration in the Municipal Register requires only the following mandatory data for each neighbor:
a) Name
b) Sex
c) Regular Address
d) Nationality
e) Place and Date of Birth
f) Number of National Identity Card or, for foreigners, the document replacing it.
The formation, maintenance, and custody of the Municipal Register corresponds to the Council, in accordance with the rules adopted jointly by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Administration at the proposal of the Registration Council, obtaining the Municipal Register Review reference to January 1 of each year.
Law 7/1985, of 2 April, Regulating the Bases of Local Government and Regulation of Population and Territorial Demarcation of local entities establishes that the municipalities must submit, by computer or electronic means, the monthly variations that will be producing data on their Municipal Registers to the the National Institute of Statistics so that it, in compliance with the obligations under Article 17.3 of that Basic Law, perform the appropriate checks to correct errors and duplications and so Official figures resulting from the annual revisions can be declared official.