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BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1996

Table of Provisions

PART 1--PRELIMINARY

  • 1 Purpose  
  • 2 Commencement  
  • 3 Objects of Act  
  • 4 Definitions  

PART 2--ADMINISTRATION

Division 1--The Registrar

Division 2--Execution of documents

Division 3--Reciprocal administrative arrangements

  • 11 Reciprocal administrative arrangements  

PART 3--REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

Division 1--Notification of births

Division 2--Registration of births

Division 3--Court orders for registration of birth

Division 4--Perinatal death

Division 5--Child's name

PART 4--CHANGE OF NAME

PART 4A--ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SEX

Division 1--Persons born in Victoria

  • 30A Application to alter record of sex in person's birth registration  
  • 30B Application to alter record of sex in child's birth registration  
  • 30BA Application made by one parent or guardian to alter record of sex in child's birth registration  
  • 30BB Court order approving alteration of record of sex in child's birth registration  
  • 30C Alteration of Register  
  • 30D Issue of new birth certificate  

Division 2--Victorian residents born elsewhere

  • 30E Application for document acknowledging name and sex  
  • 30EA Application for document acknowledging child's name and sex  
  • 30EB Application made by one parent or guardian for document acknowledging child's name and sex  
  • 30EC Court order for issue of document acknowledging child's name and sex  
  • 30F Issue of document acknowledging name and sex  
  • 30FA Notification to registering authority of issuing of document acknowledging name and sex  

Division 2A--Acknowledgement of sex applications--detainees, prisoners, prisoners on parole, offenders and registrable offenders

Division 3--Other matters

PART 5--REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES

  • 31 Cases in which registration of marriage is required  
  • 32 How to have marriage registered  
  • 33 Registration of marriage  

PART 6--REGISTRATION OF DEATHS

Division 1--Cases where registration of death is required or authorised

Division 2--Notification of deaths

Division 3--Registration of death

  • 40 Registration  
  • 40A Notification of death to Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board  

PART 7--THE REGISTER

Division 1--Keeping the Register

Division 2--Registrar's powers of inquiry

Division 3--Correction and amendment of Register

Division 4--Access to and certification of Register entries

Division 4A--Information relating to child deaths, still-births and maternal deaths

Division 5--Additional information and services

  • 50 Registrar may collect other information  
  • 51 Additional services in relation to information in Register and other information  

PART 8--GENERAL POWER OF REVIEW

  • 52 Review by Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal  

PART 9--MISCELLANEOUS

  • 53 False representation  
  • 54 Unauthorised access to or interference with Register  
  • 55 Falsification of certificate, etc.  
  • 56 Registrar to provide certain information to Minister  
  • 57 Records relating to period before 18 January 1853  
  • 58 Power to require and take statutory declarations  
  • 59 Regulations  

PART 10--REPEALS, TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS

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