Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 - SECT 15

             (1)  Where, under this Act, a registering officer is required to register the death of a person, he or she shall do so by completing a certificate in writing, to be known as a Certificate of Death Abroad, containing such of the particulars relating to the person, death or registering officer that are prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection as are known to him or her.

             (2)  A Certificate of Death Abroad shall not be taken to have been completed by a registering officer unless and until he or she has signed the certificate and:

                     (a)  in the case of the Registrar--has stamped the certificate with the stamp referred to in subsection 17(1); or

                     (b)  in the case of a registering officer holding, or performing the duties of, an office which is referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of registering officer in subsection 3(1) and in respect of which there is an official seal--has affixed that seal to the certificate.

             (3)  Where a death is registered on the application of a person under subsection 10(1) or (2), the registering officer shall make, and give to that person, a copy of the Certificate of Death Abroad relating to the death unless that person has informed him or her that he or she does not require a copy of the certificate.

             (4)  Where a registering officer completes a Certificate of Death Abroad, he or she shall make a copy of the certificate (in addition to any copy required to be made under subsection (3)) and cause that copy to be retained at a place that is appropriate for the keeping of records made by him or her for the purposes of this Act.

             (5)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), regulations made for the purposes of that subsection may prescribe particulars for inclusion only in specified classes of Certificates of Death Abroad or may prescribe different particulars for inclusion in different classes of Certificates of Death Abroad.