Being registered at the correct address is important – both for you and everyone else

Here are a few of the situations that can arise when the details registered for you are incorrect:

• Firemen responding to an alarm don’t know whether they are on their way to an empty holiday home, or to rescue a family with children.
• Health service planners don’t know whether they need to recruit more paediatricians or more orthopaedic surgeons in your area.
• The municipality works out the wrong number of classrooms when building a new school.
• Public transport planners can’t determine whether to prioritise additional school-bus or night-bus routes.
• The library doesn’t know if it’s building a sufficiently large reading corner or enough study spaces.
• You cannot vote, or engage politically, in the municipality where you live.
• Ambulance staff don’t know which flat they need to get into to help an injured person.