BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 10A Limitation on registration of parentage details

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 10A

10A Limitation on registration of parentage details

(1) In relation to the registration of a relevant event for a child—

(a) the child’s parent, or 1 of the child’s parents, must be registered as the child’s mother or as the child’s father; and

(b) not more than 1 person may be registered as the child’s mother or as the child’s father; and

(c) not more than 2 people in total may be registered as the child’s parents (however described).

(2) In this section—


"relevant event" , for a child, means—

(a) the child’s birth; or

(b) the child’s adoption; or

(c) the child’s change of parentage under—

(i) a parentage order or discharge order; or

(ii) a cultural recognition order or the discharge of a cultural recognition order under the Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Act 2020 .