BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003

Queensland Consolidated Acts

3 Objects

The objects of this Act are to provide for--

(a) the collection and maintenance, in registers kept by the registrar, of information about--

(i) births, deaths, marriages, changes of name and reassignments of sex; and

(ii) adoptions under the Adoption of Children Act 1964; and

(iii) another matter that the registrar is required to keep under another Act; and

(b) access, in appropriate cases, to information in a register maintained for those purposes; and

(c) the issue of certified and uncertified information from a register; and

(d) the collection and dissemination of statistical information.