South Australian Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1996 - SECT 33

33—Deaths to be registered under this Act

        (1)         If a person dies in the State, the death must be registered under this Act.

        (2)         If a court or coroner (whether of this or any other State or the Commonwealth) directs the registration of a death, the death must be registered under this Act.

        (3)         If a person dies in an aircraft during a flight or on a vessel during a voyage to a place of disembarkation in the State, the death may be registered under this Act.

        (4)         If a person who is domiciled or ordinarily resident in the State dies outside the Commonwealth, or a person dies outside the Commonwealth leaving property in the State, the death may be registered under this Act.

        (5)         However, the Registrar is not obliged to register a death under subsection (3) or (4) if the death is registered under a corresponding law.

        (6)         If a child is still-born, the child's death ¹ is not to be registered under this Part.

Note—

1         ie the foetal death. A "child" is defined to include a still-born child.