Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 53

             (1)  Australian passports may be issued in the name of the Governor‑General.

             (2)  Australian travel documents must be issued in forms approved by the Minister.

             (3)  The name of the person to whom an Australian travel document is issued must appear on the document. Except in the circumstances specified in a Minister's determination, the name must be:

                     (a)  the name on the person's birth certificate; or

                     (b)  the name on a notice given to the person under section 37 of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 ; or

                     (c)  the name on a certificate, entry or record of the person's marriage, being a certificate granted or entry or record made by the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages (however described) of a State or Territory; or

                    (ca)  the name on a certificate, entry or record relating to the registration of the person's relationship with another person, being a certificate, entry or record:

                              (i)  issued or made under, or for the purposes of, a law of a State or Territory prescribed for the purposes of section 22B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 ; and

                             (ii)  relating to a kind of relationship prescribed for the purposes of that section; and

                            (iii)  issued or made by the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages (however described) of the State or Territory concerned; or

                     (d)  the name included, by way of effecting a name change of the person, on a register kept under a law of a State or Territory by the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages (however described) of the State or Territory.