Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

MARRIAGE REGULATIONS 1963 - REG 63A

         (1)   Where the birth of the child of a marriage that is void is registered in a register of births kept under the law of a State or Territory or in a Register of Births Abroad as if the child was, at the time of his birth, the legitimate child of his parents, a parent of the child:

                (a)    who believed at the time of the intercourse that resulted in the birth of the child or at the time when the ceremony of marriage to the other parent of the child took place, whichever was the later, that the marriage was valid; and

               (b)    who subsequently learned, whether before, on or after the commencing date, that the marriage was void;

may furnish, in accordance with Form 21, information with respect to the legitimation of the child to the appropriate registering authority.

         (2)   Subregulations (2) and (3) of regulation 62 of these Regulations apply to and in relation to information that may be furnished under the last preceding subregulation as if references to a legitimated child were references to a child referred to in the last preceding subregulation.

         (3)   Regulation 59 of these Regulations applies to and in relation to a child referred to in subregulation (1) of this regulation as if the reference to a legitimated child for the purposes of Division 2 of this Part were a reference to a child so referred to.

         (4)   Regulation 60 of these Regulations applies to and in relation to a child referred to in subregulation (1) of this regulation as if the reference to a legitimated child were a reference to a child so referred to.