One bundle, three parts
Austria works in German, so an English record has to arrive with a German one beside it. What reaches the desk is never a loose page of German prose. It is a set of three things: the new text, the copy of the sheet it came from, and a signed line joining them. Each part is close to useless on its own.
Most people book a certified translation into German in Nottingham once the copy they mean to use is in front of them. The work runs off a scan, so no paper moves and nothing can go astray between here and there. Nottingham Register Office issues certified copies of births, marriages and deaths from The Council House, Old Market Square, Nottingham NG1 2DT.
What the sworn line does
Behind the German text stands a court-sworn translator — in German, a beeidigter or vereidigter Übersetzer. The oath is sworn once, in front of a court, and it holds for every job that person stamps from then on. The stamp names them and ties them to the words on the page. That is the whole point of it.
An official German translation in Nottingham is laid out to follow the source page. Where a seal sits on the English sheet, the German sheet says a seal sits in that spot. Nothing is tidied up, shortened or moved about, because a reader is holding the two pages side by side and matching them line for line.
Cost, speed and keeping it whole
The rate is about £25 a page, counted on the source sheets. Standard work takes 2–4 business days from the hour a readable scan lands, and the express lane closes in 24–48 hours when a date will not move. A sheet that shows up cropped or too dark starts that clock again, so get it clean the first time.
The last thing to get right costs nothing at all. Keep the set fastened the way it arrived. A certified translation for Austria is read as one item, and the stamped page is what makes the other two count. Strip out a staple to fit a slim folder and the reader is left with three loose sheets and no stated link between any of them.