Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 - SECT 57

Records relating to period before 18 January 1853

57. Records relating to period before 18 January 1853



(1) Every register, book of entries or register book of baptisms, marriages or
burials solemnised in the district of Port Phillip of the Colony of Victoria
before 18 January 1853 forwarded to the Registrar under section 31 of the
Marriage Act 1898 is to be kept by the Registrar as a permanent record.

(2) Any copy verified and forwarded to the Registrar under section 31 of the
Marriage Act 1898 is prima facie evidence of all entries contained in the
register, book of entries or register book.



(3) A person who has possession of any register, book of entries or register
book which has not been forwarded under section 31 of the Marriage Act 1898
must, during normal business hours, on payment of the prescribed fee, permit
any person to inspect any entry and on request supply a certified copy of the
entry to that person.