Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Objects
   4.      Definitions

           Part 2--Births

   5.      Notification of birth
   6.      Births that must be registered in Queensland
   7.      Births that may be registered in Queensland
   8.      Responsibility to apply to have birth registered
   9.      How to apply to register the birth of a child
   10.     Registration of parentage details
   11.     Court order relating to birth register
   12.     Child's name
   13.     Application to change child's first name within a year of birth
   14.     Reregistering a birth or adoption

           Part 3--Change of name

   15.     Change of name by registration
   16.     Application to register change of adult's name
   17.     Application to register change of child's name
   18.     Child's consent to change of name
   19.     Registration of change of name
   20.     Notation of change of name other than by registration
   21.     Limit on number of name changes

           Part 4--Reassignment of sex

   22.     When a sexual reassignment may be noted
   23.     Application to note a reassignment of sex
   24.     Effect of reassignment of sex

           Part 5--Marriages

   25.     Marriages that are registrable

           Part 6--Deaths

   26.     Deaths that must be registered in Queensland
   27.     Deaths that may be registered in Queensland
   28.     Responsibility to apply to have death registered
   29.     How to apply to register the death of a person
   30.     Cause of death certificate
   31.     Court order relating to registration of death
   32.     Notifying about disposal of a deceased person's body
   33.     Stillbirths

           Part 7--Administration

   34.     The registrar
   35.     The deputy registrar
   36.     Staff
   37.     Delegation
   38.     Executing documents
   39.     Reciprocal administrative arrangements
   40.     The registers
   41.     Registering events in register
   42.     Correcting the register
   43.     Inquiry to ensure register correct
   44.     Obtaining information from the registrar
   45.     Information policies
   46.     Protection of privacy
   47.     Control of records
   48.     Additional services
   48A.    Registrar to give notice of registration of child death to commissioner
   48B.    Registrar may enter into arrangement with commissioner
   48C.    Registrar may enter into arrangement with commission

           Part 8--General

   49.     Appealing registrar's decisions
   50.     False or misleading representation
   51.     Unauthorised access to or interference with register
   52.     Proceedings for offences
   53.     False certificates
   54.     Protection from liability
   55.     Approved forms
   56.     Regulation-making power

           Part 9--Transitional provisions

           Division 1--Transitional provisions for Act No. 31 of 2003

   57.     Transitional provisions

           Division 2--Transitional provision for Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2003

   57A.    Transitional provision

           Division 3--Transitional provisions for Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2007

   58.     Definition for div 3
   59.     Existing applications to have birth registered
   60.     Existing applications to note a person's name change
   61.     Existing applications for a certificate about an event that is, or may be, in a register
           SCHEDULE 2 -- DICTIONARY
           Endnotes