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New South Wales
Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registration Amendment Bill 2007
Contents
Page
1 Name of Act 2
2 Commencement 2
3 Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Act 1995 No 62 2
4 Repeal of Act 2
Schedule 1 Amendments 3
I certify that this public bill, which originated in the Legislative Assembly, has
finally passed the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of New
South Wales.
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
Legislative Assembly,
Sydney, , 2007
New South Wales
Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registration Amendment Bill 2007
Act No , 2007
An Act to amend the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 to make
further provision with respect to the time within which births are required to be
notified and to the functions of the Registrar; and for other purposes.
I have examined this bill and find it to correspond in all respects with the bill as
finally passed by both Houses.
Assistant Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
Clause 1 Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2007
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment
Act 2007.
2 Commencement
(1) This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act, except as
provided by subsection (2).
(2) Schedule 1 [2] and [8] commence on a day to be appointed by
proclamation.
3 Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 No 62
The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 is amended as
set out in Schedule 1.
4 Repeal of Act
(1) This Act is repealed on the day following the day on which all of the
provisions of this Act have commenced.
(2) The repeal of this Act does not, because of the operation of section 30
of the Interpretation Act 1987, affect any amendment made by this Act.
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Amendments Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendments
(Section 3)
[1] Section 6 Registrar's general functions
Insert after section 6 (a):
(a1) to maintain the integrity of the Register and to seek to
prevent identity fraud associated with the Register and the
information extracted from the Register, and
[2] Section 12 Notification of births
Omit "21 days" from section 12 (2) (a). Insert instead "7 days".
[3] Section 28 Application to register change of child's name
Omit "guardian" from section 28 (2). Insert instead "primary care-giver".
[4] Section 28 (6)
Insert after section 28 (5):
(6) In this section, primary care-giver, in relation to a child, means a
person who is primarily responsible for the care and control,
including the day-to-day care and control, of the child (whether
or not that person is the person with parental responsibility or
care responsibility for the child).
[5] Part 8, Division 5
Insert after Division 4:
Division 5 Additional information and services
55A Registrar may collect and maintain other information
(1) The Registrar may collect and maintain records of information,
other than registrable information, relating to registrable events.
(2) Records maintained under this section must be kept separately
from the Register.
(3) The Registrar may include information in the records maintained
under this section at the request of a person interested in the
registrable event to which the information relates or on the
Registrar's own initiative.
(4) Sections 46 (3) and 48 apply to any records maintained under this
section as if they were part of the Register.
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Schedule 1 Amendments
55B Additional information services in relation to information in
Register and other information
(1) In this section, additional information services means services
relating to the information in the Register or any other
information collected and maintained under section 55A that are
additional to the services otherwise provided by the Registrar
under this Act, including the following:
(a) the provision of information relating to a registrable event
in the form of a decorative certificate or other document,
(b) the provision of historical and genealogical information.
(2) The Registrar may enter into an arrangement for the provision of
additional information services.
(3) The charge for providing an additional information service is:
(a) except as provided by paragraph (b), the amount
determined by the Registrar, or
(b) if the regulations under section 54 so provide, the amount
fixed by, or determined in accordance with, the
regulations.
The charge is not required to bear any relation to the cost of
providing the service.
(4) In providing additional information services, the Registrar must,
as far as practicable, protect the persons to whom the information
concerned relates from unjustified intrusion on their privacy.
[6] Schedule 3 Savings, transitional and other provisions
Omit "this Act." from clause 1 (1). Insert instead:
the following Acts:
this Act
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2007
[7] Schedule 3, clause 1 (3)
Omit "this Act". Insert instead "the Act concerned".
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Amendments Schedule 1
[8] Schedule 3, Part 3
Insert after Part 2:
Part 3 Provisions consequent on enactment of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Amendment Act 2007
16 Notification of births
The amendment made to section 12 (2) (a) by the Births, Deaths
and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2007 applies only in
relation to births that occur after the commencement of that
amendment.
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