REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES ACT 1961
This legislation has been repealed.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 1st Schedule 2nd Schedule 3rd Schedule 4th Schedule Compilation table