South Australian Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1996 - SECT 40

40—The Register

        (1)         The Registrar must maintain a register or registers ¹ of registrable events.

        (2)         The Register—

            (a)         must contain the particulars of each registrable event required under this Act, or another law, to be included in the Register; and

            (b)         may contain further information if its inclusion is authorised under the regulations.

        (3)         The Register may be wholly or partly in the form of a computer data base, in documentary form, or in another form the Registrar considers appropriate.

        (4)         The Registrar must maintain the indexes to the Register that are necessary to make the information contained in the Register reasonably accessible.

Note—

1         A reference in this Act to the "Register" extends to all the registers kept under this subsection.