Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 - SECT 13

                   Subject to section 14, where:

                     (a)  a registering officer becomes aware, otherwise than by reason of an application under subsection 10(1), of the death of a person, not being a death that is deemed by paragraph 9(1)(a) to have occurred on board a flying craft or ship; and

                     (b)  the registering officer is satisfied that:

                              (i)  the death is that of a prescribed person who died otherwise than in a State or Territory; and

                             (ii)  the death may be registered under this Act;

the registering officer shall register that death under this Act.