Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT - SECT 38

38. Register

(1) The Registrar shall maintain a register or registers of registrable events.

(2) The Register -

(a) shall contain the particulars of each registrable event required under this Act, or another law, to be included in the Register; and

(b) may contain further information if its inclusion is authorised under the Regulations.

(3) The Register may be wholly or partly in the form of a computer data base, in documentary form, or in another form the Registrar considers appropriate.

(4) The Registrar shall maintain the Register so that the information contained in it may be searched by reference to a name or some other identifying information.