Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 48B

(1) The registrar may enter into an arrangement with the commissioner about providing to the commissioner information from a register or a source document, or providing to the commissioner a copy of a source document, about--

(a) the births of children, whether particular children, children of a class or children generally; or

(b) the deaths of children, whether particular children, children of a class or children generally.

(2) The registrar may provide information or a copy of a source document to the commissioner under the arrangement.

(3) The registrar and the commissioner must, as far as practicable having regard to the commissioner's child death research functions, protect the persons to whom the information or source document relates from unjustified intrusion on their privacy.

(4) If the registrar enters into an arrangement with the commissioner, the registrar may charge a fee for the service that is not more than the actual cost of providing the service.

(5) This section applies despite sections 44 to 46 and 48.

(6) In this section--

child death research functions, for the commissioner, means the functions set out in the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000, part 4A, division 2.

source document has the same meaning as in section 44(1)(b) but does not include a source document prescribed under a regulation for that paragraph.