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 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
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 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