(1) When a child is born in the State, the responsible person must give notice of the birth to the Registrar in a form and manner required by the Registrar, specifying the particulars required by the regulations. Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(1) If a State parentage order is made or an order is made for the discharge of a State parentage order, the order or discharge of order must be registered under this Act. (2) The Registrar is to register a State parentage order or discharge of a State parentage order by registering the notice of the parentage order or discharge of a parentage order given to the Registrar under Part 3 of the . Surrogacy Act 2010
(1) After a parentage order relating to a person is registered under this Part, a birth certificate issued by the Registrar for the person must contain the relevant information recorded in the Register pursuant to section 25B in place of the corresponding information recorded in the Register pursuant to section 17 (1).
(1) The parents of a child may apply to the Registrar, in a form approved by the Registrar, for registration of a change of the child’s name if:
(a) the child’s birth is registered in the State, or (b) the child was born outside Australia, the child’s birth is not registered in Australia and the child has been resident in the State for at least 3 consecutive years immediately preceding the date of the application. (2) If the parents of the child are dead, cannot be found or for some other reason cannot exercise their parental responsibilities in relation to the child, the application may be made by a person to whom a court within Australia has allocated:
(a) parental responsibility for the child, or (b) specific aspects of parental responsibility for the child so long as the making of the application is not outside the scope of the aspects allocated.
(1) The form approved by the Registrar for an application for registration of a change of an adult’s name is to include a requirement to the effect that the applicant disclose whether he or she has been convicted of a relevant offence.
(1) The supervising authority may approve the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for registration of a change of name of a restricted person only if the supervising authority is satisfied that the change of name is in all the circumstances necessary or reasonable.
(1) The Registrar must not register a change of name of a former serious offender unless the Registrar has first obtained the written approval of the Commissioner of Corrective Services and the Commissioner of Police. (2) However, the Registrar is not required to obtain the approval of the Commissioner of Police under this section if the Commissioner has given approval under Part 3A of the to the making of the relevant application to change the name. Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000
(1) A restricted person may appeal to the Forensic Division of the Mental Health Review Tribunal against a decision of the Tribunal under Division 3 to refuse to approve the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for registration of a change of name of the restricted person.
(1) This section applies to the following decisions:
(a) a decision of the Commissioner of Corrective Services to refuse to give approval or concurrence under section 31D or 31F on a ground referred to in section 31D (2) (a), (b) a decision of the Commissioner of Police to refuse to give approval under section 31F on a ground referred to in section 31F (4) (a).
(1) A doctor who was responsible for a person’s medical care immediately before death, or who examines the body of a deceased person after death, must, within 48 hours after the death:
(a) give the Registrar notice of the death and of the cause of death in a form and manner required by the Registrar, or (b) if the doctor is of the opinion that it is impracticable or undesirable to give notice of the cause of death of the person within that time, give the Registrar notice of the death, and of the doctor’s intention to give notice of the cause of death, in a form and manner required by the Registrar. Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(1) The Registrar may allow access by officers of a law enforcement agency to applications for registration of a change of a person’s name, and to entries in the Register regarding changes of names, but only in accordance with a memorandum of understanding entered into by the Registrar with the head of the agency.
(1) On completing a search of the Register, the Registrar may issue a certificate:
(a) certifying particulars contained in an entry, or (b) certifying that no entry was located in the Register about the relevant registrable event.
(1) The Registrar may collect and maintain records of information, other than registrable information, relating to registrable events.
(1) In this section, additional information services means services relating to the information in the Register or any other information collected and maintained under section 55A that are additional to the services otherwise provided by the Registrar under this Act, including the following:
(a) the provision of information relating to a registrable event in the form of a decorative certificate or other document, (b) the provision of historical and genealogical information.
(Section 67)