Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 - SECT 48

Access to Register

48. Access to Register



(1) The Registrar may, on conditions the Registrar considers appropriate-

   (a)  allow a person or organisation that has an adequate reason for wanting
        access to the Register, access to the Register; or

   (b)  provide a person or organisation that has an adequate reason for
        wanting information from the Register, with information extracted from
        the Register.

(2) In deciding whether an applicant has an adequate reason for wanting access
to the Register, or information extracted from the Register, the Registrar
must have regard to-

   (a)  the nature of the applicant's interest; and

   (b)  the sensitivity of the information (in particular, whether it concerns
        a birth registration that has been altered under Part 4A); and

   (c)  the use to be made of the information; and

   (d)  other relevant factors.

(3) In deciding the conditions on which access to the Register, or information
extracted from the Register, is to be given under this section, the Registrar
must, as far as practicable, protect the persons to whom the entries in the
Register relate from unjustified intrusion on their privacy.