Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES ACT 1963

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Table of Amendments
           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1963.1  
   2.      This Act shall come into operation on the date fixed by Proclamation under subsection (2) of section two of the Marriage Act 1961 of the Commonwealth.1  

   PART II--ADMINISTRATION

   10.     The Registrar-General shall, in exercising any power conferred on him by this Act, comply with any directions given him by the Minister as to the manner or circumstances in which the power is to be exercised.  

   PART III--REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

   23.     Nothing in this Division shall be taken to prevent a change in a person's name from being effected in any manner in which the change could lawfully have been effected immediately before the commencement of this Act.  

   PART IV--REGISTRATION OF DEATHS

   32.     Where the death of a person has been reported to the Coroner, particulars of the cause of death shall not be stated in the entry of the death in the Register of Deaths unless the Registrar-General has received a notification of the findings of the Coroner, that the Coroner has adjourned the inquest, or is not to proceed further with, an inquest.  
   36.     A medical practitioner who is required by subsection (5) of section thirty-four of this Act to report the death of a person to the Coroner shall not, without the consent of the Coroner, deliver to the occupier of the building or place where the death occurred the notice referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) or in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of that section, as the case may be, with respect to the death.  
   37.     An undertaker who buries a body shall forthwith give notice of the burial to the Registrar-General by delivering to the Registrar-General a certificate, in accordance with Form 8, signed—  
   38.     Where the Registrar-General has registered the death of a person in the Register of Deaths, the Registrar-General may grant a certificate, in accordance with Form 9, stating the date on which the death of the person was registered.  

   PART V--REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES

   40.     The Registrar-General shall register in the Register of Marriages all marriages solemnised in the Territory other than marriages to or in relation to which Division 3 of Part IV of the Marriage Act 1961 of the Commonwealth applies.  
   42.     A marriage shall be taken to be registered in the Register of Marriages kept under this Act when the Registrar-General has complied with paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of the last preceding section in relation to the official certificate of the marriage, whether or not that official certificate has been bound in a volume.  

   PART VI--REGISTRATION OF LEGITIMATIONS AND PARENTAGE INFORMATION

   46.     Where the birth of a person has been re-registered in the Register of Births in pursuance of section forty-four of this Act, the Registrar-General shall not issue to that person or to any other person a copy of or an extract from the original entry of the birth of that person unless the Registrar-General is satisfied that the copy or extract is properly required as evidence of a fact of which a copy of, or extract from, the entry of the birth of the person made in pursuance of that section would not be evidence.  
   46B.    46B. Where—  
   46F.    46F. An application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of a decision of the Registrar-General refusing to issue a certified copy under section 46D.  

   PART VII--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   PART VIII--MISCELLANEOUS

   50.     The Registrar-General shall keep an index of the entries in each register kept by him under this Act.  
   58.     Where a person contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of this Act and a penalty for a contravention of, or failure to comply with, that provision is not expressly provided, the person is guilty of an offence against this Act punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding Five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months.  
   59.     Strict compliance with the Forms contained in the Fourth Schedule is not necessary and substantial compliance is sufficient.  
   60.     Nothing in this Act affects the right of a minister of religion to require or receive a fee for or in respect of the performance of the religious rite of baptism or burial.  
   61.     Nothing in this Act shall be taken to affect the operation of the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1938-1949.  
   62.     The Minister may, by notice in writing published in the Gazette, determine fees for the purposes of this Act.  
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