Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 No. 169, 1984 - SECT 15

15. (1) Where, under this Act, a registering officer is required to register
the death of a person, he 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 sub-section as are
known to him.

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

   (a)  in the case of the Registrar - has stamped the certificate with the
stamp referred to in sub-section 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 sub-section 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
sub-section 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 that he does not require a copy of the
certificate.

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

(5) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (1), regulations made for
the purposes of that sub-section 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.