Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 - SECT 16

             (1)  Where, under section 15, a registering officer, other than the Registrar, completes a Certificate of Death Abroad, he or she shall send the certificate to the Registrar.

             (2)  Subject to subsection (3), where the Registrar:

                     (a)  receives a Certificate of Death Abroad sent to him or her under subsection (1); or

                     (b)  completes a Certificate of Death Abroad under section 15;

he or she shall enter, or cause to be entered, in the Register such of the particulars contained in the certificate as are required by the regulations to be entered.

             (3)  If, by reason of applications for the registration of a death having been made to registering officers in different places or otherwise, a particular death is registered under this Act, and Certificates of Death Abroad in relation to the death are completed, by more than one registering officer, the Registrar shall comply with subsection (2) in relation to one only of those Certificates of Death Abroad.

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