Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 - SECT 3

Objects of Act

3. Objects of Act

The objects of this Act are to provide for-

   (a)  the registration of births, deaths and marriages in Victoria; and

   (b)  the registration of changes of name; and





   (c)  the keeping of registers for recording and preserving information
        about births, deaths, marriages, changes of name and adoptions in
        perpetuity; and

   (ca) the alteration of the record of sex in a person's birth registration
        where the person has undergone sex affirmation surgery; and

   (d)  access to the information in the registers in appropriate cases by
        government or private agencies and members of the public, from within
        and outside the State; and

   (e)  the issue of certified and uncertified information from the registers;
        and

   (ea) the issue of documents acknowledging the identity of certain persons
        who have undergone sex affirmation surgery; and

   (f)  the collection and dissemination of statistical information.