Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Objects of Act
4. Terms used
PART 2 -- Administration
Division 1 -- The Registrar and staff
5. Registrar
6. Registrar’s general functions
7. Registrar’s staff
8. Delegation
Division 2 -- Execution of documents
9. The Registrar’s seal
10. Execution of documents
Division 3 -- Reciprocal administrative arrangements
11. Reciprocal administrative arrangements
PART 3 -- Registration of births
Division 1 -- Notification of births
12. Notification of births
Division 2 -- Registration of births
13. Cases in which registration of birth is required or authorised
14. How to have the birth of a child registered
15. Responsibility to have birth registered
16. Obligation to have birth registered
17. Registration of birth
18. Registration of parentage details
19. Addition of details after birth registration
Division 3 -- Court orders relating to registration of birth
20. Powers of State courts
21. Registration of birth etc. after court findings
Division 4 -- Child’s name
22. Name of child
23. Given names can be changed once within a year of birth
PART 4 -- Registration of information about certain parentage changes
24. WA order: birth registered in WA
25. WA order: birth not registered in WA
26. Order in other State: birth registered in WA
27. Manner and form of adoption information in the Register
28. Certain certified copies
PART 5 -- Change of name
29. Change of name by registration
30. Application to register change of adult’s name
31. Application to register change of child’s name
32. Child’s consent to change of name
33. Application to register change of child’s name approved by Family Court
34. Registration of change of name
35. Entries to be made in the Register
36. Change of name may be established by repute or usage
PART 6 -- Registration of marriages
37. Marriages in the State to be registered
38. How to have marriage registered
39. Registration of marriage
PART 7 -- Registration of deaths
Division 1 -- Cases where registration of death is required or authorised
40. Deaths to be registered under this Act
41. Powers of State courts and coroners and registration of death etc. after court findings
Division 2 -- Notification of death
42. Person responsible for notification of death
43. Notification of suspected death
Division 3 -- Certificates of cause of death
44. Doctor to provide certificate of cause of death unless the death is reportable to a coroner
Division 4 -- Disposal of human remains
45. Notification of disposal of human remains in the State
46. Notification of disposal of human remains out of the State
47. Notification if disposal has not occurred within 30 days
Division 5 -- Registration of death
48. Registration of death
PART 8 -- The Register
Division 1 -- Keeping the Register
49. The Register
Division 2 -- Registrar’s powers of inquiry
50. Registrar’s powers of inquiry
Division 3 -- Correction and amendment of Register
51. Correction of Register
52. Amendment of Register
53. Registrar’s functions under other Acts
Division 4 -- Access to, and certification of, Register entries
54. Access to Register
55. Search of Register
56. Protection of privacy
57. Issue of certificate
58. Access policies
PART 9 -- Miscellaneous
59. False representation
60. Unauthorised access to or interference with Register
61. Falsification of certificate etc.
62. Revocation of registration of registrable events obtained by fraud
63. Unauthorised disclosure of information
64. Power to require and take statutory declarations
65. Evidentiary
66. Protection from liability
67. Review
68. Some effects of Adoption Act 1994 and Surrogacy Act 2008
69. Regulations
70. Power to remit fees
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[Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 24 July 2009]