BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 42 Registration

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 42

42 Registration

(1) The Registrar registers a death by making an entry about the death in the Register including the particulars required by the regulations.

(2) However, if the particulars available to the Registrar are incomplete the Registrar may register a death on the basis of incomplete particulars.

(3) If the Registrar receives a cause of death certificate referred to in the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022 , section 87(6), the Registrar must register the death in the Register by making an entry about the death that records--

(a) the cause of death as the disease, illness or medical condition with which the person had been diagnosed that made the person eligible to access voluntary assisted dying, and

(b) the person was the subject of a voluntary assisted dying authority under the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022 and voluntary assisted dying was the manner of death.