Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An application to register the death of a person must be in the approved form (a death registration application).
(2) The application must be given to the registrar within 14 days after the death, or the death is discovered, whichever happens later.
(3) However, the registrar may accept an application given more than 14 days after the death, or the death is discovered, if satisfied the death happened.
(4) Also, the parent of a stillborn child born before 1 May 1989 may give the registrar a death registration application for the child at any time.
Editor's note--
Also see section 7 (Births that may be registered in Queensland) for the requirement to register the birth.
(5) The registrar may require a person giving an application to give it electronically, if it is reasonably practicable for the person to do so.