Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES ACT 1961

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Repeal. First Schedule  
   3.      Interpretation  

   PART II -- Administration  

   4.      Appointment of, and administration of Act by, Registrar General  
   5.      Registry districts  
   6.      District registrars and assistant district registrars  
   6A.     Powers of registration officers  
   7.      Temporary vacancy in office of Registrar General  
   8.      Notice to be exhibited outside office of district registrar or assistant district registrar  
   9.      Duty of district registrar to obtain and forward information to Registrar General  
   10.     Duty of Registrar General to register births, deaths and marriages  
   11.     Records to be kept by assistant district registrar  
   12.     Registrar General to provide copies of lost, mislaid, etc., duplicates  
   13.     Registrar General to supply registers, books to district registrars and ministers  
   14.     Registrar General to provide seal for use on documents  
   15.     Power to prescribe certificates of causes of death to be supplied by medical practitioner  
   16.     Indexes to be kept by Registrar General and district registrar  
   17.     Power of Registrar General to register birth, death or marriage  
   18.     Searches of register and certified copies of searches  
   19.     Certified copies of register or entries of registers to be prima facie evidence  

   PART III -- Registration of births  

   20.     Duty of parent to register birth  
   21.     Registration of birth of illegitimate child  
   21A.    Surname to be entered in register of births  
   22.     All births to be registered  
   24.     Registration of birth after 12 months from date thereof  
   25.     Appeal from Registrar General  
   26.     Certain registrations not to be evidence  
   28.     Registration of births of children born out of the State  
   29.     Registration of name after registration of birth  
   30.     Registration of change of name  
   31.     Information respecting foundlings to be given  

   PART IIIA -- Temporary provision for registration of previously unregistered births  

   31A.    Registration of previously unregistered birth  
   31B.    Order to register  

   PART IV -- Registration of deaths  

   32.     Registration of deaths within 14 days of death  
   33.     Commanders of ships to report deaths  
   34.     Commander of aircraft to report deaths  
   35.     Person in charge of anatomy school to furnish particulars of death  
   41.     Medical certificates as to cause of death  
   42.     Cause of death to be entered in register  
   43.     Penalty  
   44.     Medical practitioner to notify Coroner in certain cases and not give death certificate  
   45.     Certificate of minister and undertaker  
   45A.    Removal of the body of a person from the State  
   45B.    No registration of death without entry of manner of disposal  
   46.     Product of birth deemed to be body of person  

   PART V -- Registration of marriages  

   47.     Official certificate to be forwarded  
   48.     Registration of marriage after original failure to register  
   49.     Registrar of Supreme Court to forward details of divorces and nullity decrees  
   50.     Orders or decrees of divorce or nullity of competent court registrable in respect of marriages celebrated in the State  

   PART VI -- Registration of legitimated children  

   51.     Notice of legitimated child born in the State  
   52.     Registration of birth of legitimated child born outside the State  
   53.     Father to make statutory declaration if requested by Registrar General  
   54.     Power to Registrar General to register birth  
   55.     Power to Registrar General to authorize registration of birth of legitimated children in certain cases  
   56.     Registrations to be in form of Second Schedule  
   57.     Legitimated child may use name of father  

   PART VII -- Miscellaneous and penalties  

   58.     Power of minister or district registrar to require information of birth, death or marriage  
   59.     Offence of failing to give particulars of a birth or death  
   60.     Power of Registrar General to require attendance of persons and information from persons  
   61.     Offences  
   62.     Offence by Registrar General and others  
   63.     Information papers to contain declaration  
   63A.    District registrar prohibited from making entry in register except by authority of Registrar General  
   63B.    Prohibition of demand of extracts, etc.  
   64.     No prosecution without authority of Registrar General  
   65.     Correction of errors in registers  
   66.     Power of Registrar General to impound altered extracts or certified copies  
   67.     Omission of informant’s signature not to render entries inadmissible in evidence  
   68.     Entries as to registration of births of adopted persons  
   69.     Right of ministers to receive fees  
   70.     Sections of Second Schedule of Interpretation Act 1918 , incorporated  
   71.     Power of Governor to amend forms in schedules  
   72.     Fees  
   73.     Regulations  
   73A.    Application to amend register within 6 months of prescribed day  
   74.     Cost of administration  
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