Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 - SECT 43

Correction and amendment of Register

43. Correction and amendment of Register



(1) The Registrar may correct the Register-

   (a)  to reflect a finding made on inquiry under Division 2; or

   (b)  to bring an entry about a particular registrable event into conformity
        with the most reliable information available to the Registrar of the
        registrable event.

(2) The Registrar must, if required by a court, correct the Register.

(3) The Registrar corrects the Register by adding or cancelling an entry in
the Register or by adding, altering or deleting particulars contained in an
entry.



(4) Subject to section 16, the Registrar may add additional registrable
information to an entry in the Register.

(5) A person may apply to the Registrar for the addition of registrable
information to an entry in the Register.

(6) An application under subsection (5) must be accompanied by the prescribed
fee.

(7) Despite anything to the contrary in the Adoption Act 1984, the Registrar-

   (a)  may correct an original birth entry in respect of an adopted person;
        and

   (b)  subject to section 16, may add additional registrable information to
        that entry.

Division 4-Access to and certification of Register entries