Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 (NSW)
An Act to provide for the registration of births, deaths and marriages and for other purposes.
This Act is the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995.
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.
The objects of this Act are to provide for—
(a) the registration of births, deaths and marriages in New South Wales, and
(b) the registration of adoption information, and
(c) the registration of changes of name and the recording of changes of sex, and
(d) the keeping of registers for recording and preserving information about births, adoptions, deaths, marriages, registered relationships, changes of name and changes of sex in perpetuity, and
(e) access to the information in the registers in appropriate cases by government or private agencies and members of the public, from within and outside the State, and
(f) the issue of certified information from the registers, and
(g) the collection and dissemination of statistical information.
In this Act—
(a) cremation of the remains, or
(b) burial of the remains (including burial at sea), or
(c) placing the remains in a mausoleum or other permanent resting place, or
(d) placing the remains in the custody of an educational or scientific institution for the purpose of medical education or research, or
(e) removal of the remains from the State (but not if the remains have been cremated or are taken from the State by sea and buried at sea in the course of the voyage).
(a) is obscene or offensive, or
(b) could not practicably be established by repute or usage—
(i) because it is too long, or
(ii) because it consists of or includes symbols without phonetic significance, or
(iii) for some other reason, or
(c) includes or resembles an official title or rank, or
(d) is contrary to the public interest for some other reason.
(a) is of at least 20 weeks’ gestation, or
(b) if it cannot be reliably established whether the period of gestation is more or less than 20 weeks, has a body mass of at least 400 grams at birth.
The Interpretation Act 1987 contains definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this Act.
Notes in the text of this Act do not form part of this Act.
This Act and the regulations apply to a relationship that the Registrar determines may be registered under the Relationships Register Act 2010 in the same way that they apply to a registrable event.
The Registrar is, in the exercise of functions under this Act, subject to the control and direction of the Minister.
The Registrar’s general functions are—
(a) to establish and maintain the registers
1 necessary for the purposes of this Act and the Relationships Register Act 2010, and(a1) to maintain the integrity of the Register and to seek to prevent identity fraud associated with the Register and the information extracted from the Register, and
(b) to administer the registration system established by this Act and ensure that the system operates efficiently, effectively and economically, and
(c) to ensure that this Act is administered in the way best calculated to achieve its objects.
Persons may be employed in the Public Service under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 to enable the Registrar to exercise the Registrar’s functions under this Act and the Relationships Register Act 2010.
The Registrar may engage persons under a contract to provide services to enable the Registrar to exercise the Registrar’s functions under this Act and the Relationships Register Act 2010, including engaging persons through a labour hire arrangement.
The Registrar may delegate to an authorised person any of the Registrar’s functions under this Act and the Relationships Register Act 2010, other than this power of delegation.
A delegate may sub-delegate to an authorised person any function delegated by the Registrar if the delegate is authorised in writing to do so by the Registrar.
In this section—
(a) a Public Service employee, within the meaning of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013,
(b) a person engaged under a contract to provide services to enable the Registrar to exercise the Registrar’s functions under this Act or the Relationships Register Act 2010, including a person engaged through a labour hire arrangement,
(c) a person prescribed by the regulations.
The Registrar is to have a seal.
The Registrar may issue a certificate or other document under the Registrar’s signature and seal, or under a copy of the Registrar’s signature and seal produced by stamp or machine imprint or by some other method authorised by the regulations.
If a document produced before a court or an administrative authority or official is apparently under—
(a) the Registrar’s signature and seal, or
(b) a copy of the Registrar’s signature and seal produced by stamp or machine imprint or by some other method authorised by the regulations,
the court, authority or official must presume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the document was properly issued under the Registrar’s authority.
Judicial notice is to be taken of the Registrar’s seal.
The Minister may enter into an arrangement with the Minister responsible for the administration of a corresponding law providing for—
(a) the exercise by the Registrar of functions of the registering authority under the corresponding law, and
(b) the exercise by the registering authority under the corresponding law of functions of the Registrar under this Act.
When an arrangement is in force under this section—
(a) the Registrar may exercise, to the extent authorised by the arrangement (but subject to the conditions of the arrangement), the functions of the registering authority under the corresponding law, and
(b) the registering authority under the corresponding law may exercise, to the extent authorised by the arrangement (but subject to the conditions of the arrangement), the functions of the Registrar under this Act and anything done by the registering authority under this paragraph is taken to have been done by the Registrar under this Act.
An arrangement under this section may—
(a) establish a database in which information is recorded for the benefit of all the participants in the arrangement, and
(b) provide for access to information contained in the database, and
(c) provide for payments by or to participants in the arrangement for services provided under the arrangement.
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.
The notice must be given—
(a) in the case of a child born alive—within 7 days after birth, or
(b) in the case of a stillbirth—within 48 hours after stillbirth.
When notice of a stillbirth is given, the responsible person must also give the Registrar, in a form and manner required by the Registrar—
(a) a registered medical practitioner’s certificate certifying the cause of foetal death, or
(b) if a registered medical practitioner is of the opinion that it is impracticable or undesirable to certify the cause of foetal death at the time the notice referred to in subsection (2) (b) is given, a notice signed by a registered medical practitioner stating the registered medical practitioner’s intention to complete such a certificate.
The certificate or notice referred to in subsection (3) must be completed by the registered medical practitioner responsible for the professional care of the birth mother at the birth or a registered medical practitioner who examined the body of the stillborn child after the stillbirth.
In this section—
(a) in the case of a child born in a hospital or brought to a hospital within 24 hours after birth—the chief executive officer of the hospital, or
(b) if the child was not born in a hospital or brought to a hospital within 24 hours after birth, and a registered medical practitioner or midwife was responsible for the professional care of the birth mother at the birth—that registered medical practitioner or midwife.
If a child is born in the State, the birth must be registered under this Act.
If a court
If a child is born—
(a) in an aircraft during a flight to an airport in the State, or
(b) on a ship during a voyage to a port in the State,
the birth may be registered under this Act.
If a child is born outside the Commonwealth, but the child is to become (or in the case of a stillbirth, was to become) a resident of the State, the birth may be registered under this Act.
However, the birth of a child born outside the State is not to be registered under this Act if the birth is registered under a corresponding law.
A person has the birth of a child registered under this Act by giving notice of the birth to the Registrar (the
The parents of a child are jointly responsible for having the child’s birth registered under this Act (and must both sign the birth registration statement) but the Registrar may accept a birth registration statement from one of the parents if satisfied that it is not practicable to obtain the signatures of both parents on the birth registration statement.
If a child is a foundling, the person who has custody of the child is responsible for having the child’s birth registered.
The Registrar may accept a birth registration statement from a person who is not responsible for having the child’s birth registered if satisfied that—
(a) the person lodging the statement has knowledge of the relevant facts, and
(b) the child’s parents are unable or unlikely to lodge a birth registration statement.
A person responsible for having the birth of a child registered must have the birth registered—
(a) within 60 days after the date of the birth, or
(b) for a live birth where variations of sex characteristics do not allow for an easy assignment of sex—within 180 days after the date of the birth.
Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
However, the Registrar must accept a birth registration statement given for the purposes of having a birth registered even though it is given after the end of the period specified in subsection (1)(a) or (b).
The Registrar registers a birth by making an entry about the birth in the Register including the particulars required by the regulations.
However, if the particulars available to the Registrar are incomplete the Registrar may register a birth on the basis of incomplete particulars.
The Registrar must not include registrable information about the identity of a child’s parent in the Register unless—
(a) both parents of the child make a joint application for the inclusion of the information, or
(b) one parent of the child makes an application for the inclusion of the information and the other parent cannot join in the application because he or she is dead or cannot be found, or for some other reason, or
(c) one parent of the child makes an application for the inclusion of the information and the Registrar is satisfied that the other parent does not dispute the correctness of that information, or
(d) a court orders the inclusion of the information in the Register, or
(e) a court makes a finding that a particular person is a parent of the child, or
(f) the Registrar is entitled under any law (including a law of another State or the Commonwealth) to make a presumption as to the identity of the child’s parent, or
(g) the regulations authorise the Registrar to include the information.
The District Court may, on application by an interested person or on its own initiative, order—
(a) the registration of a birth, or
(b) the inclusion of registrable information about a birth or a child’s parents (including details of the marriage of a child’s parents) in the Register.
Such an order may only be made in respect of a birth—
(a) in the case of an order under subsection (1) (a), if the birth occurred in the State, in an aircraft during a flight to an airport in the State or on a ship during a voyage to a port in the State, and
(b) in the case of an order under subsection (1) (b), if the birth has been registered under this Act.
If any court (including any court of another State or the Commonwealth) makes a finding about a birth or a child’s parents, the court may order registration of the birth or inclusion of registrable information about the birth or the parents in the Register.
An application to the Registrar for the addition of registrable information in a person’s birth registration—
(a) must be made in writing, and
(b) must include the information required by the Registrar, and
(c) must, if the Registrar requires verification of the information contained in the application, be accompanied by a statutory declaration verifying the information contained in the application and any other evidence that the Registrar may require.
This section is subject to section 18.
In this section,
The birth registration statement must state the name of the child.
However, the Registrar may assign a name to the child if—
(a) the name stated in the birth registration statement is a prohibited name, or
(b) the birth registration statement is lodged by both parents of the child and they satisfy the Registrar that they are unable to agree on the child’s name.
If there is a dispute between parents about a child’s name, either parent may apply to the District Court for a resolution of the dispute.
On an application under subsection (1), the District Court may—
(a) resolve the dispute about the child’s name as the Court considers appropriate, and
(b) order the Registrar to register the child’s name in a form specified in the order.
If any court (including any court of another State or the Commonwealth) resolves a dispute about a child’s name, the court may order the Registrar to register the child’s name in a form specified in the order.
A birth registration statement for a child may include a declaration that the child was conceived using a donated gamete and in such a case the Registrar must note in the Register that the statement included that declaration.
The Registrar must, when issuing a birth certificate to a person who is 18 years of age or more and to whom a declaration under subsection (1) relates, attach an addendum to the birth certificate noting that declaration and stating that further information may be available from the central register established under the Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2007.
A birth certificate for a person must not include any information that indicates that the person may be a person who was conceived using a donated gamete.
If a State adoption order or recognised foreign adoption order is made or an order is made for the discharge of such an order, the adoption or discharge of adoption must be registered under this Act.
If an Interstate adoption order is made in relation to a person whose birth or previous adoption is registered under this Act or an order is made for the discharge of an Interstate adoption order in relation to such a person, the adoption or discharge of adoption must be registered under this Act.
In this section—
The Registrar is to register an adoption or discharge of an adoption by registering the record of the adoption or discharge sent to the Registrar under Chapter 7 of the Adoption Act 2000.
The Registrar registers the record by making an entry about it in the Register including the information required by the regulations.
If the record relates to a person in relation to whom such a record has previously been registered under this Act, the Registrar is also to note a reference to the later record in the entry in the Register relating to the previous record.
The adoptive parent of a person in relation to whom a record is registered under this Part may apply to the Registrar, in a form approved by the Registrar, for registration of the intention of a deceased person before his or her death to adopt the person jointly with the adoptive parent.
The Registrar registers an intention of a deceased person to adopt by making an entry about the intention to adopt in the Register including the information required by the regulations.
An application to the Registrar under this section must, if the Registrar requires verification of the information contained in the application, be accompanied by a statutory declaration obtained from the Director-General of the Department of Community Services or an appropriate principal officer (within the meaning of the Adoption Act 2000) verifying the information contained in the application and any other evidence that the Registrar may require.
If a record of adoption, or discharge of adoption, registered under this Part relates to a person whose birth is registered under this Act, the Registrar is to note a reference to the record in the entry relating to the birth of the person.
If a record of adoption, or discharge of adoption, received by the Registrar under Chapter 7 of the Adoption Act 2000 relates to a person whose birth is registered under a corresponding law, the Registrar is to cause a copy of the record to be sent to the relevant registering authority.
After a person’s adoption is registered under this Part, a birth certificate issued by the Registrar for the person must contain—
(a) the relevant information recorded in the Register pursuant to section 24(2) in place of the corresponding information recorded in the Register pursuant to section 17(1) (a
post-adoption birth certificate ), or(b) the relevant information recorded in the Register pursuant to section 24(2) and the following additional information (an
integrated birth certificate )—(i) the corresponding information recorded in the Register pursuant to section 17(1),
(ii) if no information is recorded in the Register pursuant to section 17(1)—information, if any, recorded on the Register pursuant to section 43(2)(b) that the Registrar considers appropriate for inclusion in the certificate in relation to the birth of the person.
A post-adoption birth certificate must not include any information that indicates that the person has been adopted.
If an adoption is registered on or after the commencement of the Adoption Legislation Amendment (Integrated Birth Certificates) Act 2020—
(a) a post-adoption birth certificate issued by the Registrar must be accompanied by an integrated birth certificate, and
(b) an integrated birth certificate issued by the Registrar must be accompanied by a post-adoption birth certificate.
This section applies whether or not the person’s birth has been registered under this Act.
A person who is issued a post-adoption birth certificate and an integrated birth certificate in accordance with subsection (3) is only required to pay the fee for a single certificate.
If the Registrar has issued a person a post-adoption birth certificate and an integrated birth certificate in accordance with subsection (3), a subsequent application to the Registrar may be for either or both of the certificates.
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.
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.
If an Interstate parentage order is made in relation to a person whose birth is registered under this Act or an order is made for the discharge of an Interstate parentage order in relation to such a person, the order or discharge of order may be registered under this Act.
The Registrar may register an Interstate parentage order or discharge of an Interstate parentage order by registering any notice of the parentage order or discharge of a parentage order given to the Registrar by a registering authority.
The Registrar registers a notice by making an entry about it in the Register including the information required by the regulations.
If the notice relates to a person in relation to whom such a notice has previously been registered under this Act, the Registrar is also to note a reference to the later notice in the entry in the Register relating to the previous notice.
In this section—
If a notice registered under this Part relates to a person whose birth is registered under this Act, the Registrar is to note a reference to the notice in the entry relating to the birth of the person.
If a notice of a parentage order or discharge of a parentage order received by the Registrar under the Surrogacy Act 2010 relates to a person whose birth is registered under a corresponding law, the Registrar is to cause a copy of the notice to be sent to the relevant registering authority.
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).
In particular, a birth certificate for the person must not include any information that indicates that the person was the child of a surrogacy arrangement.
However, the Registrar must, if the Registrar issues a birth certificate to the person to whom it relates, and the person is at least 18 years of age, attach an addendum to the certificate that indicates that further information is available about the entry.
This section applies whether or not the person’s birth has been registered under this Act.
If at any time the Registrar registers a change of name in relation to a person to whom a registered parentage order relates, the Registrar is to notify the Director-General of the Department of Health of the change of name.
The Director-General is authorised to collect and use that information for the purposes of the administration of the central register under the Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2007.
In this Part—
(a) is released on parole in accordance with the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999, or
(b) is the subject of a parole order that was made under a law of another State or a Territory and that is registered under the Parole Orders (Transfer) Act 1983.
(a) in relation to a restricted person who is a forensic patient, the Mental Health Review Tribunal, or
(b) in relation to a restricted person who is not a forensic patient and who is of a class of restricted persons for whom a supervising authority is prescribed by the regulations, that supervising authority, or
(c) in relation to any restricted person not referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), the Commissioner of Corrective Services.
(a) an interim supervision order or extended supervision order under the Crimes (High Risk Offenders) Act 2006 or the Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017, or
(b) a community supervision order within the meaning of Part 4A of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 or an intensive correction order within the meaning of that Act.
A person’s name may be changed by registration of the change under this Part.
An adult person may apply to the Registrar, in a form approved by the Registrar, for registration of a change of the person’s name if—
(a) the person’s birth is registered in the State, or
(b) the person was born outside Australia, the person’s birth is not registered in Australia and the person has been resident in the State for at least 3 consecutive years immediately preceding the date of the application.
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.
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.
If there is more than one such person referred to in subsection (2), the application may be made only as a joint application of those persons.
An application for registration of a change of a child’s name may be made by one parent if—
(a) the applicant is the sole parent named in the registration of the child’s birth under this Act or any other law (including a corresponding law), or
(a1) the parent has sole parental responsibility, under a final parenting order made under the Family Law Act 1975 of the Commonwealth, to make decisions about—
(i) major long-term issues for the child within the meaning of that Act, or
(ii) the child’s name, or
(b) there is no other surviving parent of the child, or
(c) a court approves the proposed change of name.
The District Court may, on application by a child’s parent, approve a proposed change of name for the child if satisfied that the change is in the child’s best interests.
If any court (including any court of another State or the Commonwealth) approves a proposed name for a child, the court may order the Registrar to register the child’s name in a form specified in the order.
In this section—
A change of a child’s name must not be registered unless—
(a) the child consents to the change of name, or
(b) the child is unable to understand the meaning and implications of the change of name.
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.
The form approved by the Registrar for an application for registration of a change of a child’s name is to include a requirement to the effect that the applicant disclose whether the child has been convicted of a relevant offence.
An offence against section 57 in relation to a false or misleading disclosure referred to in this section in an application for registration of a change of name is in addition to an offence against that section for any other false or misleading representation made in the same application.
In this section—
(a) includes the making of an order under section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999, and
(b) does not include a spent conviction within the meaning of Part 2 of the Criminal Records Act 1991 or a conviction that is taken to be quashed within the meaning of Part 4 of that Act.
(a) an offence in New South Wales that is punishable by imprisonment for 12 months or more, or
(b) an offence in a jurisdiction other than New South Wales that, if committed in New South Wales, would be an offence so punishable.
The provision of false or misleading information in an application for registration of a change of name in relation to disclosure of convictions for relevant offences constitutes an offence against section 57 with a maximum penalty of 100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment or both.
The Registrar is not to register a change of name of a person on application made under this Act if the Registrar is aware that—
(a) a change of the person’s name has been registered (whether in this State or in another State) within the period of 12 months immediately preceding the date of the application, or
(b) 3 or more changes of the person’s name have been registered (whether in this State or in another State).
The Registrar may register a change of name of a person despite any restriction imposed by section 27 (a) or 28 (1) (a) that the person’s birth must be registered in the State if satisfied that an order has been made (whether in the State or elsewhere) for the protection of the person or the person’s children from domestic violence.
The Registrar may register a change of name of a person despite any restriction imposed by section 27 (b) or 28 (1) (b) as to the period for which the person must be resident in the State, or any restriction imposed by section 29B, if—
(a) the Registrar is satisfied that the reason for the proposed change of name warrants the registration of the change of name, or
(b) without limiting paragraph (a), the Registrar is satisfied that the proposed change of name is sought for the protection of the person, the person’s children or anyone else associated with the person, or
(c) the proposed change of name is because of the marriage of the person, or
(d) the District Court has approved the proposed change of name on application under section 28 (4).
Nothing in this Part limits or affects—
(a) any power that a court has under another Act or law (whether of this State, another State, the Commonwealth or New Zealand) to order that a change of name is to be registered or the ability of the Registrar to comply with such an order, or
(b) the operation of the Adoption Act 2000, the Law Enforcement and National Security (Assumed Identities) Act 2010, the Surrogacy Act 2010 or the Witness Protection Act 1995.
Before registering a change of name under this Part, the Registrar may require the applicant to provide evidence to establish to the Registrar’s satisfaction—
(a) the identity and age of the person whose name is to be changed, and
(b) that the change of name is not sought for a fraudulent or other improper purpose, and
(c) if the person whose name is to be changed is a child—that the child consents to the change of name or is unable to understand the meaning and implications of the change of name, and
(d) the reasons for making the application for registration of the change of name if the registration of the change would require the Registrar to exercise his or her discretion under section 29C.
If the Registrar is satisfied that the name of a person whose birth is registered in the State has been changed under another law (including a law of another State or the Commonwealth) or by order of a court (including any court of another State or the Commonwealth) the change of name may be registered under this Act.
The Registrar may refuse to register a change of name if, as a result of the change, the name would become a prohibited name.
The Registrar registers a change of name by making an entry about the change of name in the Register including the particulars required by the regulations.
If the applicant for registration of the change of name asks the Registrar to arrange for noting the change of name in the particulars of the person’s birth, and the person’s birth is registered under this Act or a corresponding law, the Registrar must—
(a) if the birth is registered under this Act—note the change of name in the entry relating to the birth, or
(b) if the birth is registered under a corresponding law—give notice to the relevant registering authority of the change of name.
If the change of name is noted in the Register under subsection (2), a birth certificate issued by the Registrar for the person must show the person’s name as changed under this Part.
The requirements and restrictions contained in this Division are in addition to any other requirements and restrictions contained in this Part.
This Division does not apply to a change of name resulting from the exercise of a power, or the operation of an Act, referred to in section 29C (3).
The Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000 contains additional requirements and restrictions in relation to the change of name of registrable persons within the meaning of that Act.
For the purposes of this Part, a
(a) an inmate,
(b) a person on remand,
(c) a parolee,
(d) a periodic detainee,
(e) a person who is subject to a supervision order,
(f) a forensic patient,
(g) a correctional patient,
(h) a person of a class included by the regulations under subsection (2).
The regulations may include as a class of
(a) persons that are in lawful custody,
(b) persons that are the subject of an order made under an Act authorising some form of supervision or conditional release of the person concerned in connection with the commission, or the alleged commission, of an offence
Despite subsection (1), a
A restricted person must not do any of the following without having first obtained the written approval of the supervising authority—
(a) apply to the Registrar to register a change of his or her name under this Act,
(b) apply to a registering authority to register a change of his or her name under a corresponding law.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
A person must not, on behalf of a restricted person, do any of the following without having first obtained the written approval of the supervising authority—
(a) apply to the Registrar to register a change of the restricted person’s name under this Act,
(b) apply to a registering authority to register a change of the restricted person’s name under a corresponding law.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
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.
The supervising authority must not approve the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for registration of a change of name of a restricted person if the supervising authority is satisfied that—
(a) the change of name would, if registered, be reasonably likely—
(i) to adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of any premises or facility at which the restricted person is held or accommodated, or
(ii) to jeopardise the restricted person’s or another person’s health or safety, or
(iii) to be used to further an unlawful activity or purpose, or
(iv) to be used to evade or hinder the supervision of the restricted person, or
(b) the proposed name would be reasonably likely to be regarded as offensive by a victim of crime or an appreciable sector of the community.
The supervising authority for a restricted person who is a forensic patient and a person referred to in section 31B (1) (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) must not approve the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for registration of a change of the person’s name unless the supervising authority has consulted with the Commissioner of Corrective Services and the Commissioner has given concurrence.
The supervising authority for all forensic patients is the Mental Health Review Tribunal.
Subsections (1) and (2) apply to a determination of the Commissioner of Corrective Services as to whether to give concurrence in the same way as those subsections apply to a determination of a supervising authority as to whether to give approval.
If the supervising authority approves of the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for registration of a change of name of a restricted person, the supervising authority must—
(a) as soon as practicable, give written notice of the approval to the person who intends to make the application, and
(b) give a copy of the written notice of approval to the Registrar or the registering authority (as the case requires).
The Registrar must not register a change of name of a restricted person unless the Registrar has received a copy of the notice of approval of the supervising authority to the application for registration of a change of name.
The Registrar must give written notice to the supervising authority of a decision of the Registrar to register or refuse to register a change of name of a restricted person.
The Registrar must give written notice—
(a) to the Commissioner of Corrective Services when the Registrar registers the name of a person who is a forensic patient and a person referred to in section 31B (1) (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), and
(b) to the Commissioner of Police when the Registrar registers the name of a person who is a restricted person and a registrable person (within the meaning of the Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000).
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.
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 Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000 to the making of the relevant application to change the name.
The Commissioner of Corrective Services and the Commissioner of Police may approve the making of an application to the Registrar for registration of a change of name of a former serious offender only if satisfied that the change of name is in all the circumstances necessary or reasonable.
The Commissioner of Corrective Services and the Commissioner of Police must not give an approval under this section if satisfied that—
(a) the change of name would, if registered, be reasonably likely—
(i) to jeopardise the former serious offender’s or another person’s health or safety, or
(ii) to be used to further an unlawful activity or purpose, or
(b) the proposed name would be reasonably likely to be regarded as offensive by a victim of crime or an appreciable sector of the community.
This section does not apply to the change of name of a person who is a former serious offender if—
(a) at any time since the release date, the person has had a prison-free period of 10 consecutive years, or
(b) at the time of making the application for the change of name, the person is a restricted person, or
(c) the person’s conviction for an offence as a result of which the person became a serious offender has been quashed or set aside.
This section applies to a former serious offender despite the Criminal Records Act 1991.
In this section—
(a) the date on which the last sentence of imprisonment that the person served wholly or partly as a serious offender (whether in New South Wales or elsewhere) expired or, if the person was serving one or more other sentences of imprisonment consecutively or concurrently with that sentence of imprisonment, the date on which the combined terms of all of the sentences expired, or
(b) if the person was a serious offender and a forensic patient, the date on which the person ceased to be a serious offender.
The Registrar may correct the Register under section 45 if a change of name of a person has been registered in contravention of this Division.
This section does not limit the power of the Registrar under section 45 to correct the Register.
The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the making of applications under this Division, the giving of approvals and concurrences under this Division, consultation requirements for supervising authorities, exemptions from the requirements of any of the provisions of this Division and the modification of the application of the provisions of this Division in any specified circumstances.
A supervising authority—
(a) must ensure that the Registrar is provided with information as to the identity of the restricted persons for whom it is the supervising authority, including the following information in relation to each of those persons (if known to the authority)—
(i) the name (including any other name by which a restricted person is or has previously been known),
(ii) the date and place of birth of each restricted person,
(iii) the residential address or addresses of each restricted person, and
(b) must provide that information in the form and manner agreed to from time to time between the authority and the Registrar, and
(c) must notify the Registrar as soon as practicable after a person ceases to be a restricted person if the Registrar has previously been notified by the authority that the person is a restricted person.
The Commissioner of Corrective Services—
(a) must ensure that the Registrar is provided with information as to the identity of persons who are former serious offenders, including the following information in relation to each of those persons (if known to the Commissioner)—
(i) the name (including any other name by which each such person is or has previously been known),
(ii) the date and place of birth of each such person,
(iii) the residential address or addresses of each such person,
(iv) the release date of each such person (within the meaning of section 31F), and
(b) must provide that information in the form and manner agreed to from time to time between the Commissioner and the Registrar.
This section has effect despite any law to the contrary.
A person may apply to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal for an administrative review under the Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 of the following decisions in relation to the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for the change of name of the person—
(a) a decision of the supervising authority (other than the Mental Health Review Tribunal) under Division 3 to refuse to approve the making of the application,
(b) a decision by the Commissioner of Corrective Services to refuse to give concurrence under section 31D (3) to the making of the application,
(c) a decision by the Commissioner of Corrective Services or the Commissioner of Police to refuse to give approval under section 31F to the making of the application.
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.
A restricted person may appeal against the determination of an appeal by the Forensic Division of the Mental Health Review Tribunal under this section to the Supreme Court in accordance with section 163 of the Mental Health Act 2007.
This section does not give a right of appeal against a decision of the Mental Health Review Tribunal that was made only because the Commissioner of Corrective Services refused to give concurrence under section 31D (3).
In this section, the
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).
The Commissioner of Corrective Services or the Commissioner of Police is not, under this or any other Act or law, required to give any reasons for a decision of the Commissioner’s to which this section applies to the extent that the giving of those reasons would disclose any security sensitive information.
In determining an application for an administrative review of any decision to which this section applies, the Civil and Administrative Tribunal (and any Appeal Panel of the Tribunal in determining any internal appeal against such a review under the Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013)—
(a) is to ensure that it does not, in the reasons for its decision or otherwise, disclose any security sensitive information without the approval of the Commissioner who made the decision, and
(b) in order to prevent the disclosure of any such security sensitive information, is to receive evidence and hear argument in the absence of the public, the applicant for the administrative review, the applicant’s representative and any other interested party, unless that Commissioner approves otherwise.
In this section,
(a) to prejudice criminal investigations, or
(b) to enable the discovery of the existence or identity of a confidential source of information relevant to law enforcement, or
(c) to endanger a person’s life or physical safety, or
(d) to adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of a correctional centre, correctional complex or residential facility (within the meaning of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999), or
(e) to adversely affect the supervision of any parolee or person subject to a supervision order.
This Part does not prevent a change of name by repute or usage.
In this part—
(a) is obscene or offensive, or
(b) could not practicably be established by repute or usage—
(i) because it is too long, or
(ii) because it consists of or includes symbols without phonetic significance, or
(iii) for some other reason, or
(c) includes or resembles an official title or rank, or
(d) is contrary to the public interest for some other reason.
(a) is issued under the law of another State or Territory or a jurisdiction outside Australia, and
(b) recognises an alteration in a record of a person’s sex, and
(c) is issued in relation to a person whose record of sex has been altered, and
(d) states the person’s sex in accordance with the altered record.
(a) female,
(b) male,
(c) non-binary,
(d) non-specified,
(e) any descriptor prescribed by the regulations.
A person may apply to the Registrar to have a record of the person’s sex, specified in the application, altered if—
(a) the person is 18 years of age or more, and
(b) the person’s birth is registered in this State.
An application under subsection (1) must be—
(a) in the approved form, and
(b) accompanied by a statutory declaration in which the person declares that the person—
(i) identifies as being of the sex specified in the declaration, and
(ii) lives, or seeks to live, as a person of that sex, and
(c) accompanied by a support statement by an adult who has known the applicant for at least 12 months stating that—
(i) the adult believes the person is making the application in good faith, and
(ii) the adult supports the person in making the application, and
(d) accompanied by any other document or information the Registrar reasonably requires in relation to the sex of the person.
See the Oaths Act 1900, sections 25 and 25A, which provide for penalties for making a false statutory declaration, and this Act, section 57, which provides for penalties for giving the Registrar false information.
The applicant must nominate a sex descriptor in the application.
Persons or a person (each an
(a) the applicants constitute all the parents or guardians of the child, or
(b) the applicant is the sole parent named in the registration under this Act of the child’s birth, or
(c) the applicant is the sole guardian of the child, or
(d) the applicant is the child’s parent and there is no other surviving parent of the child, or
(e) an order of a court authorises the applicant to register a change of sex in relation to the child.
An application under subsection (1) must be—
(a) in the approved form, and
(b) accompanied by—
(i) if the child is able to make a statutory declaration—a declaration made by the child that the child—
(A) identifies as being of the sex specified in the declaration, and
(B) lives, or seeks to live, as a person of that sex, and
(ii) if the child is not able to make a statutory declaration but is able to express the child’s views—a statement from each applicant stating that the applicant believes on reasonable grounds that alteration of the record of sex of the child is in the child’s best interests, and
(c) accompanied by a statement from a qualified counsellor who has provided counselling to the child that the child has undertaken counselling in relation to—
(i) whether or not the application ought to be made, and
(ii) the implications of the alteration of the record of the child’s sex, and
(d) accompanied by a statement from the qualified counsellor referred to in paragraph (c) that the counsellor supports the application, and
(e) accompanied by any other document or information the Registrar reasonably requires.
The applicant must nominate a sex descriptor in the application.
This section applies if—
(a) not all the parents or guardians of a child, who is under the age of 18 and whose birth is registered in this State, wish to apply to alter a record of the sex of the child, or
(b) the parent or guardian is otherwise ineligible to apply under section 32C to the Registrar to alter the record of the sex of the child.
The parent or a guardian (the
An application under subsection (2) must be—
(a) in the approved form, and
(b) accompanied by any other document or information the District Court reasonably requires.
The applicant must nominate a sex descriptor in the application.
A person may apply to the Registrar for the registration of an acknowledgment of the person’s sex, specified in the application, if—
(a) the person is 18 years of age or more, and
(b) the person is an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia, and
(c) the person lives, and has lived for at least one year, in New South Wales, and
(d) the person’s birth is not registered under this Act or a corresponding law.
An application under subsection (1) must be—
(a) in the approved form, and
(b) accompanied by a statutory declaration in which the person declares that the person—
(i) identifies as being of the sex specified in the declaration, and
(ii) lives, or seeks to live, as a person of that sex, and
(c) accompanied by a support statement by an adult who has known the applicant for at least 12 months stating that—
(i) the adult believes the person is making the application in good faith, and
(ii) the adult supports the person in making the application, and
(d) accompanied by any other document or information the Registrar reasonably requires in relation to the sex of the person.
See the Oaths Act 1900, sections 25 and 25A, which provide for penalties for making a false statutory declaration, and this Act, section 57, which provides for penalties for giving the Registrar false information.
The applicant must nominate a sex descriptor in the application.
This section applies in relation to a child if—
(a) the child is under the age of 18 years, and
(b) the child is an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia, and
(c) the child lives, and has lived for at least one year, in New South Wales, and
(d) the child’s birth is not registered under this Act or a corresponding law.
The following persons or a person (each an
(a) the applicants constitute all the parents or guardians of the child,
(b) the applicant is the sole parent named in the registration under this Act of the child’s birth,
(c) the applicant is the sole guardian of the child,
(d) the applicant is the child’s parent and there is no other surviving parent of the child,
(e) an order of a court authorises the applicant to register a change of sex in relation to the child.
An application under subsection (2) must be—
(a) in the approved form, and
(b) accompanied by—
(i) if the child is able to make a statutory declaration—a declaration made by the child that the child—
(A) identifies as being of the sex specified in the declaration, and
(B) lives, or seeks to live, as a person of that sex, and
(ii) if the child is not able to make a statutory declaration but is able to express the child’s views—a statement from each applicant stating that the applicant believes on reasonable grounds that the registration of an acknowledgment of the child’s sex is in the child’s best interests, and
(c) accompanied by a statement from a qualified counsellor who has provided counselling to the child that the child has undertaken counselling in relation to—
(i) whether or not the application ought to be made, and
(ii) the implications of the registration of the acknowledgement of the child’s sex, and
(d) accompanied by a statement from the qualified counsellor referred to in paragraph (c) that the counsellor supports the application, and
(e) accompanied by any other document or information the Registrar reasonably requires.
The applicant must nominate a sex descriptor in the application.
This section applies if—
(a) not all the parents or guardians of a child who meets the following criteria (a
relevant child ) wish to apply for the registration of an acknowledgement of the child’s sex—(i) the child is under the age of 18 years,
(ii) the child is an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia,
(iii) the child lives, and has lived for at least one year, in New South Wales,
(iv) the child’s birth is not registered under this Act or a corresponding law, or
(b) the parent or guardian is otherwise ineligible to apply under section 32DB to the Registrar for the registration of an acknowledgement of the child’s sex.
The parent or a guardian (the
An application under subsection (2) must be—
(a) in the approved form, and
(b) accompanied by any other document or information the District Court reasonably requires.
The applicant must nominate a sex descriptor in the application.
After receiving an application under this part for the alteration of a record of sex or the registration of an acknowledgement of sex in relation to a person, the Registrar—
(a) for an application for the alteration of a record of sex—must—
(i) alter the record of sex in relation to the person by making an entry in the Register specifying the sex to be the registered sex in relation to the person, and
(ii) make any other changes to the Register necessary to indicate each previous registered sex of the person is no longer the registered sex in relation to the person, or
(b) for an application for the registration of an acknowledgement of sex in relation to a person—must make an entry in the Register specifying the sex to be the acknowledged sex in relation to the person, or
(c) must refuse to alter the record of sex or register the acknowledgement of sex in relation to the person.
If the Registrar decides an application made under this part by refusing to alter the record of sex or to register the acknowledgement of sex in relation to the person—
(a) the Registrar must record the Registrar’s reasons for the refusal, and
(b) the Registrar must give the person who made the application the Registrar’s reasons for the refusal, and
(c) the person who made the application may apply under section 56 for a review of the decision.
If a record of sex is altered in relation to a person under this section, any registered sex that was previously registered in relation to the person ceases to be the registered sex in relation to the person.
The Registrar may refuse to approve the registration of the sex descriptor nominated by or for a person if the alteration or acknowledgement would result in the recorded sex being a prohibited sex descriptor.
(Repealed)
If an application is made to the District Court under this part to approve the alteration of a record of a sex or for the registration of an acknowledgment of sex, specified in the application, the District Court may—
(a) make an order that—
(i) approves the alteration of the record of sex or the registration of the acknowledgment of sex in relation to the person, and
(ii) requires the Registrar to make an entry in the Register altering the record of sex or registering the acknowledgement of sex in relation to the person, or
(b) refuse to approve the alteration of the record of the person’s sex or the acknowledgement of the sex of the person.
The District Court may approve the alteration of a record or the registration of an acknowledgement of the sex of a child only if the District Court is satisfied the alteration or acknowledgement is in the child’s best interests.
In deciding whether the alteration or acknowledgement is in the child’s best interests, the matters to which the District Court may have regard include the following—
(a) the views of the child, however expressed,
(b) whether the child is sufficiently mature to understand the meaning and legal implications of the alteration of the record or registration of acknowledgement of the sex of the child.
The District Court may refuse to approve the registration of the sex descriptor nominated by or for a person if the alteration or acknowledgement would result in the recorded sex being a prohibited sex descriptor.
(Repealed)
The requirements and restrictions contained in this division are in addition to any other requirements and restrictions contained in this part.
A term used in this division and Part 5, Division 3 has the same meaning in this division as it has in Part 5, Division 3.
In this division, a
(a) means any of the following persons—
(i) an inmate,
(ii) a person on remand,
(iii) a parolee,
(iv) a periodic detainee,
(v) a person who is subject to a supervision order,
(vi) a forensic patient,
(vii) a correctional patient,
(viii) a person of a class included by the regulations under subsection (2), but
(b) despite paragraph (a), does not include a person of a class prescribed by the regulations as not being a class of restricted persons.
For subsection (1)(a)(viii), the regulations may include as a restricted person a person of a class that consists of the whole or part of the following classes—
(a) persons in lawful custody,
(b) persons the subject of an order made under an Act authorising a form of supervision or conditional release of the person in connection with the commission, or alleged commission, of an offence.
A restricted person must not do the following without the written approval of the supervising authority—
(a) apply to the Registrar to register a change of the restricted person’s sex under this Act,
(b) apply to a registering authority to register a change of the restricted person’s sex under a corresponding law.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
A person must not, on behalf of a restricted person, do the following without the written approval of the supervising authority—
(a) apply to the Registrar to register a change of the restricted person’s sex under this Act,
(b) apply to a registering authority to register a change of the restricted person’s sex under a corresponding law.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
The supervising authority may approve the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for registration of a change of sex of a restricted person only if the supervising authority is satisfied the change of sex is necessary or reasonable.
The supervising authority must not approve the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for the registration of a change of sex of a restricted person if the supervising authority is satisfied—
(a) the change of sex would, if registered, be reasonably likely to—
(i) adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of premises or a facility at which the restricted person is held or accommodated, or
(ii) jeopardise the restricted person’s or another person’s health or safety, or
(iii) be used to further an unlawful activity or purpose, or
(iv) be used to evade or hinder the supervision of the restricted person, or
(b) the proposed change of sex would be reasonably likely to be regarded as offensive by a victim of crime or an appreciable sector of the community.
The supervising authority for a restricted person who is a forensic patient and a person referred to in section 32GA(1), definition of
(a) the supervising authority has consulted with the Commissioner of Corrective Services, and
(b) the Commissioner has given concurrence.
The supervising authority for all forensic patients is the Mental Health Review Tribunal.
Subsections (1) and (2) apply to a determination of the Commissioner of Corrective Services about whether to give concurrence in the same way as the subsections apply to a determination of a supervising authority about whether to give approval.
If the supervising authority approves the making of an application to the Registrar or a registering authority for the registration of a change of sex of a restricted person, the supervising authority must—
(a) as soon as practicable, give written notice of the approval to the person who intends to make the application, and
(b) give a copy of the written notice of approval to the Registrar or registering authority.
The Registrar must not register a change of sex of a restricted person unless the Registrar has received a copy of the notice of approval of the supervising authority to the application for the registration of a change of sex.
The Registrar must give written notice to the supervising authority of a decision of the Registrar to—
(a) register a change of sex of a restricted person, or
(b) refuse to register a change of sex of a restricted person.
The Registrar must give written notice to—
(a) the Commissioner of Corrective Services if the Registrar registers the change of sex of a person who is—
(i) a forensic patient, and
(ii) a person referred to in section 32GA(1), definition of
restricted person , paragraph (a)(i)–(v), and
(b) the Commissioner of Police if the Registrar registers the change of sex of a person who is—
(i) a restricted person, and
(ii) a registrable person within the meaning of the Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000.
The Registrar may correct the Register under section 45 if a change of sex of a person has been registered in contravention of this division.
This section does not limit the power of the Registrar under section 45 to correct the Register.
The regulations may provide for the following—
(a) the making of applications under this division,
(b) the giving of approvals and concurrences under this division,
(c) consultation requirements for supervising authorities,
(d) exemptions from the requirements of the provisions of this division,
(e) the modification of the application of the provisions of this division in specified circumstances.
A person whose record of sex is altered under this part is, for the purposes of a law of this State, a person of the sex stated in the altered record.
A person for whom a registration of an acknowledgement of sex is recorded under this part is, for the purposes of a law of this State, a person of the sex stated in the record.
A person for whom a recognition certificate is in force is, for the purposes of a law of this State, a person of the sex stated in the recognition certificate.
This section is subject to any other Act.
Nothing in this part changes access to toilets, change rooms, sport or allocation in correctional facilities, women’s refuges or any other place.
This section applies if, under this part or because of a recognition certificate—
(a) a person’s sex or name, as recorded in the Register, is altered, or
(b) a registration of an acknowledgement of a person’s sex and name is recorded in the Register.
The Registrar must, on application by a relevant person in the approved form, issue—
(a) for an alteration of a person’s sex referred to in subsection (1)(a)—a birth certificate certifying particulars by reference to the altered sex, or
(b) for a registration of an acknowledgment of a person’s sex and name referred to in subsection (1)(b)—a certificate certifying particulars in an entry in the Register in relation to the acknowledgment of the person’s sex and name.
In this section—
(a) for a birth certificate in relation to a person who is 18 years of age or older—the person, or
(b) for a birth certificate in relation to a child who is under the age of 18 years—the person or persons who may apply under this part to alter the record of child’s sex or for the registration of an acknowledgement of the child’s sex.
If a marriage is solemnised in the State in accordance with law, the marriage must be registered under this Act.
A person has a marriage registered by lodging with the Registrar a certificate of the marriage under the Marriage Act
1961 of the Commonwealth or, if the marriage was solemnised before the commencement of that Act, the evidence of the marriage required by the Registrar.
A marriage may be registered by—
(a) including the marriage certificate as part of the Register, or
(b) including particulars of the marriage in the Register.
The Registrar may include information in the records maintained under this section at the request of a person interested in the registrable event to which the information relates or on the Registrar’s own initiative.
Sections 46 (3) and 48 apply to any records maintained under this section as if they were part of the Register.
In this section,
(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.
The Registrar may enter into an arrangement for the provision of additional information services.
The charge for providing an additional information service is—
(a) except as provided by paragraph (b), the amount determined by the Registrar, or
(b) if the regulations under section 54 so provide, the amount fixed by, or determined in accordance with, the regulations.
The charge is not required to bear any relation to the cost of providing the service.
In providing additional information services, the Registrar must, as far as practicable, protect the persons to whom the information concerned relates from unjustified intrusion on their privacy.
A person who is dissatisfied with a decision of the Registrar made in the exercise or purported exercise of functions under this Act may apply to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal for an administrative review under the Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 of the decision.
This section does not give a right of administrative review of a decision of the Registrar to refuse to register a change of name that was made only because the Commissioner of Corrective Services or the Commissioner of Police refused to give approval under section 31F.
A person who makes a representation in an application, notice or document under this Act or in response to a notice under section 44 of this Act (Registrar’s powers of inquiry), knowing the representation to be false or misleading in a material particular, is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment, or both.
A person must not, without the authority of the Registrar or other lawful authority—
(a) obtain access to the Register or information contained in the Register, or
(b) make, alter or delete an entry in the Register, or
(c) interfere with the Register in any other way.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment, or both.
A person must not forge the Registrar’s signature or seal.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment, or both.
A person must not forge or falsify a certificate or other document under this Act.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment, or both.
The Registrar may impound or require the return of—
(a) a document which the Registrar has reason to believe bears a forged impression of the Registrar’s signature or seal, or
(b) a certificate or other document purporting to be a certificate or other document under this Act which the Registrar has reason to believe has been forged or falsified, or
(c) a certificate under this Act about a registrable event if the entry in the Register about the event has been cancelled or corrected since the issue of the certificate, or
(d) a certificate or document issued by the Registrar in error or as a result of fraud.
A person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement under subsection (3) to return a document or certificate is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
A person must not disclose any information obtained in connection with the administration or execution of this Act, except—
(a) in connection with the administration or execution of this Act, or
(b) as authorised or required by law.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units or 1 year imprisonment, or both.
Any matter or thing done or omitted by the Registrar does not subject the Registrar personally to any action, liability, claim or demand, if the matter or thing was done or omitted in good faith for the purposes of executing this or any other Act.
The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 100 penalty units.
Proceedings for an offence against this Act or the regulations are to be dealt with summarily by the Local Court.
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1973 is repealed.
(Repealed)
Schedule 3 has effect.
The Minister is to review this Act to determine whether the policy objectives of the Act remain valid and whether the terms of the Act remain appropriate for securing those objectives.
The review is to be undertaken as soon as possible after the period of 5 years from the date of assent to this Act.
A report of the outcome of the review is to be tabled in each House of Parliament within 12 months after the end of the period of 5 years.
(Repealed)
(Section 67)
The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts—
• this Act
• Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2007
• Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Same Sex Relationships) Act 2008 (but only to the extent that it relates to this Act or amendments to the Status of Children Act 1996 that affect the operation of this Act)
• Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Change of Name) Act 2009
• Relationships Register Act 2010
• Surrogacy Act 2010
• Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Change of Name) Act 2012
• any other Act that amends this Act
Any such savings and transitional provisions may make provision for or with respect to the modification of any of the provisions of Part 2 of this Schedule in the event that the whole of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1973 is not repealed on the one day.
Savings or transitional provisions contained in regulations made under this Part may, if the regulations so provide, take effect on the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.
To the extent to which any such savings or transitional provision takes effect on a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as—
(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or any authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or
(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or any authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.
In this Part—
A register kept under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1973 forms part of the Register under this Act.
An index to a register kept under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1973 is taken to have been established under this Act.
Anything done under or for the purposes of a provision of the former Act and having effect immediately before the repeal of the former Act is taken to have been done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of this Act.
This Act applies in respect of a registrable event that occurs on or after the repeal of the former Act and, subject to this Part and the regulations under Part 1, extends to apply in respect of a registrable event that occurred before the repeal of the former Act.
The former Act continues to apply in respect of any obligation to give notice of a registrable event that occurred before the repeal of the former Act, as if this Act had not been enacted.
An application for a certificate, certified copy or extract relating to information on the Register or an application for the inclusion of information in the Register that was made under the former Act, and is pending on the repeal of that Act, is to be dealt with as if this Act had not been enacted.
An application pending under section 13 of the former Act (Supreme Court may order registration of birth or stillbirth) immediately before the repeal of the former Act is to be dealt with as if this Act had not been enacted.
An order made by a coroner under section 49 of the former Act (Order authorising the disposal of a body) that has any effect immediately before the repeal of that Act is taken to have been made under section 53B (1) of the Coroners Act 1980.
An order made by a coroner under section 50 of the former Act (Examination of body for purpose of section 49) that has any effect immediately before the repeal of that Act is taken to have been made under section 53B (4) of the Coroners Act 1980.
A notice given by a coroner under section 25 (1) of the former Act is taken to have been given under section 16A (1) of the Coroners Act 1980.
A notice given by a coroner under section 25 (3) of the former Act is taken to have been given under section 16A (2) of the Coroners Act 1980.
A certificate issued under section 26 of the former Act (Certificate of registration of death) is taken to have been issued under section 51 of this Act (Issue of certificate to enable disposal of human remains).
A medical certificate or notice signed by a medical practitioner under section 24 (2) of the former Act in respect of a death that occurred before the repeal of the former Act is taken to be a notice under section 39 of this Act.
A medical certificate or notice signed by a medical practitioner under section 18 (2) of the former Act in respect of a stillbirth that occurred before the repeal of the former Act is taken to be a medical certificate or notice under section 12 (3) of this Act.
A reference in any other Act or any instrument made under an Act or in any instrument of any other kind to the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1973 is taken to be a reference to this Act.
A reference in any other Act or any instrument made under an Act or in any instrument of any other kind to the Principal Registrar, a Deputy Principal Registrar or a local registrar (within the meaning of the former Act), is taken to be a reference to the Registrar.
A reference (however expressed) in any other Act or any instrument made under an Act or in any instrument of any other kind to a register under the former Act, is taken to be a reference to the Register under this Act.
If the Registrar corrects an entry about a particular registrable event in the Register and the Registrar considers it impracticable to correct an entry about the same event in a local register, the Registrar need not correct the local register.
In such a case the Registrar may cause a written notice to be attached to the local register, in such words as the Registrar considers appropriate, to indicate that the information contained in the Register may not be correct.
The Registrar may assume custody of any local register and may, subject to the Archives Act 1960, destroy or otherwise dispose of such a register in such manner as the Registrar considers appropriate.
In this clause, a reference to a
The regulations in force under the former Act immediately before its repeal are taken to have been made under this Act. This does not prevent the future amendment or repeal of those regulations.
For the purposes of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989, those regulations are taken to have been made when they were made under the former Act.
The amendment made to section 12 (2) (a) by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2007 applies only in relation to births that occur after the commencement of that amendment.
In this clause—
An application may be made to the Registrar for the addition of registrable information, about the identity of a woman who is presumed to be a parent of the child under the relevant provisions, in the birth registration of a child born before the commencement of those provisions.
The Registrar is to determine the application by making the addition or refusing to make the addition.
The Registrar must not add registrable information in the child’s birth registration about the identity of the woman as a parent of the child unless—
(a) the application is made jointly by that woman and the birth mother, and
(b) if the child’s birth registration already includes registrable information that purports to identify a person as the father of the child—
(i) that person has given his consent to the removal of the particulars from the birth registration that identify him as the father of the child (or a court or the regulations authorise their removal because the person is not the father by operation of law or otherwise), and
(ii) the Registrar removes those particulars from the birth registration, and
(c) if the Registrar requires verification of the information contained in the application—the application is accompanied by a statutory declaration verifying the information contained in the application and any other evidence that the Registrar may require.
An application made under this clause must be in a form approved by the Registrar.
This clause has effect despite sections 18 and 20 of this Act and clause 7 (2) of Schedule 2 to the Status of Children Act 1996.
The Registrar is not obliged to comply with an order under section 19 (1) (a) made before the commencement of section 19 (1A), as inserted by the Courts and Crimes Legislation Further Amendment Act 2008, if such an order could not have lawfully been made after that commencement.
Anything that has been done or omitted to be done by the Registrar at any time before the commencement of section 25A (as inserted by the Courts and Crimes Legislation Further Amendment Act 2008), and that would have been validly done or omitted had section 25A then been in force, is taken to have been validly done or omitted.
An amendment made to this Act by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Change of Name) Act 2009 does not apply to, or affect the determination of, an application under this Act for registration of a change of name if the application was made before the commencement of the amendment but was not finally determined before that commencement.
The memorandum of understanding entered into for the purposes of clause 8 (2) of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Regulation 2006 (as in force before its repeal by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Change of Name) Act 2009) is taken to have been entered into for the purposes of section 46A and may be amended, revoked or replaced accordingly.
In this Part,
Division 3 of Part 5 (as inserted by the amending Act) does not apply to or in respect of a change of name of a restricted person (within the meaning of that Part) if the application for the change of name was made before the commencement of that Division.
A reference in section 31F (as inserted by the amending Act)—
(a) to a former serious offender includes a reference to a person who ceased to be a serious offender before the commencement of the section, and
(b) to a release date is a reference to a release date whether occurring before or after the commencement of the section, and
(c) to any period of time includes a reference to any period of time occurring wholly or partly before the commencement of the section.
In this clause,
Sections 31J and 31K as amended by the amending Act extend to decisions in relation to the making of an application to a registering authority for a change of name that were made after the commencement of those sections and before the commencement of this clause.
For the purpose only of determining the period within which an application for a review may be made under section 31J, or an appeal may be made under section 31K, in relation to a decision referred to in subclause (2) that was made before the commencement of this clause, the decision is taken to have been made on the commencement of this clause.
Section 46A (1) and (2), as amended by the Courts and Other Legislation Further Amendment Act 2013, extend to information relating to applications made before the amendment of those subsections by that Act.
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 No 62. Assented to 12.12.1995. Date of commencement, 1.1.1996, sec 2 and GG No 156 of 22.12.1995, p 8682. This Act has been amended as follows—
No 22 | Transgender (Anti-Discrimination and Other Acts Amendment) Act 1996. Assented to 19.6.1996. Date of commencement, 1.10.1996, sec 2 and GG No 110 of 27.9.1996, p 6525. | |
No 77 | Administrative Decisions Legislation Amendment Act 1997. Assented to 10.7.1997. Date of commencement of Sch 5.4, 1.1.1999, sec 2 and GG No 178 of 24.12.1998, p 9946. | |
No 85 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1). | |
No 75 | Adoption Act 2000. Assented to 9.11.2000. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.2.2003, sec 2 and GG No 33 of 31.1.2003, p 591. | |
No 121 | Justices Legislation Repeal and Amendment Act 2001. Assented to 19.12.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 7.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5978. | |
No 5 | Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 15.6.2007. Date of commencement of Sch 1, Sch 1 [2] and [8] excepted, assent, sec 2 (1); date of commencement of Sch 1 [2] and [8], 11.4.2008, sec 2 (2) and GG No 42 of 11.4.2008, p 2649. | |
No 94 | Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009. | |
No 23 | Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Same Sex Relationships) Act 2008. Assented to 11.6.2008. Date of commencement, 22.9.2008, sec 2 and GG No 118 of 19.9.2008, p 9283. | |
No 53 | Courts and Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2008. Assented to 1.7.2008. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 27.2.2009, sec 2 (2) and GG No 45 of 27.2.2009, p 1283. | |
No 62 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008. Assented to 1.7.2008. Date of commencement of Sch 1.4, assent, sec 2 (2). | |
No 107 | Courts and Crimes Legislation Further Amendment Act 2008. Assented to 8.12.2008. Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2 (1). | |
No 41 | Coroners Act 2009. Assented to 19.6.2009. Date of commencement of Schs 3 and 4, 1.1.2010, sec 2 (1) and 2009 (544) LW 27.11.2009. | |
No 59 | Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Change of Name) Act 2009. Assented to 16.9.2009. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. | |
No 19 | Relationships Register Act 2010. Assented to 19.5.2010. Date of commencement of Sch 2.1, 1.7.2010, sec 2 (1) and 2010 (323) LW 1.7.2010. | |
No 34 | Health Practitioner Regulation Amendment Act 2010. Assented to 15.6.2010. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.7.2010, sec 2 (2). | |
No 73 | Law Enforcement and National Security (Assumed Identities) Act 2010. Assented to 29.9.2010. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. | |
No 102 | Surrogacy Act 2010. Assented to 16.11.2010. Date of commencement, 1.3.2011, sec 2 and 2011 (49) LW 11.2.2011. | |
No 14 | Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Change of Name) Act 2012. Assented to 28.3.2012. Date of commencement, 10.4.2012, sec 2 and 2012 (144) LW 5.4.2012. | |
No 42 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012. Assented to 21.6.2012. Date of commencement of Sch 1.4 [1]–[6], 10.4.2012, Sch 1.4 and 2012 (144) LW 5.4.2012; date of commencement of Sch 1.4 [7]–[9], 6.7.2012, sec 2 (1). | |
No 1 | Courts and Other Legislation Further Amendment Act 2013. Assented to 28.2.2013. Date of commencement of Sch 1.2, assent, sec 2 (1). | |
No 4 | Crimes (Serious Sex Offenders) Amendment Act 2013. Assented to 19.3.2013. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. | |
No 79 | Adoption Legislation Amendment (Overseas Adoption) Act 2013. Assented to 29.10.2013. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. | |
No 95 | Civil and Administrative Legislation (Repeal and Amendment) Act 2013. Assented to 20.11.2013. Date of commencement of Sch 2.13, 1.1.2014, sec 2 (1). | |
No 11 | Assisted Reproductive Technology Amendment Act 2016. Assented to 6.4.2016. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 28 days after assent, sec 2 (1). | |
No 53 | Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Sentencing Options) Act 2017. Assented to 24.10.2017. Date of commencement, 24.9.2018, sec 2 and 2018 (534) LW 21.9.2018. | |
No 68 | Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017. Assented to 30.11.2017. Date of commencement of Sch 2.2, 19.1.2018, sec 2 (3) and 2018 (8) LW 19.1.2018. | |
No 28 | Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Marriages) Act 2018. Assented to 15.6.2018. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. | |
No 14 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2019. Assented to 21.11.2019. Date of commencement of Sch 1.2, 14 days after assent, sec 2(1). | |
No 12 | Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020. Assented to 23.6.2020. Date of commencement, 27.3.2021, sec 2 and 2021 (116) LW 19.3.2021. | |
No 22 | Adoption Legislation Amendment (Integrated Birth Certificates) Act 2020. Assented to 28.9.2020. Date of commencement, 16.11.2020, sec 2 and 2020 (650) LW 6.11.2020. | |
No 17 | Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022. Assented to 27.5.2022. Date of commencement, 18 months after assent (i.e. 28.11.2023), sec 2. Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023 No 7. Assented to 3.7.2023. Date of commencement, 14.7.2023, sec 2. | |
No 47 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024. Assented to 9.8.2024. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. | |
No 59 | Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024. Assented to 27.9.2024. Date of commencement of Sch 2.2, 1.12.2024, sec 2(a)(ii). | |
No 71 | Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Act 2024. Assented to 23.10.2024. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.7.2025, sec 2(b). | |
No 13 | Justice Legislation Amendment (Civil) Act 2025. Assented to 2.3.2025. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. | |
No 62 | Justice Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous) Act (No 2) 2025. Assented to 28.10.2025. Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2(c). |
Sec 3 | Am 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (1) (2); 2010 No 19, Sch 2.1 [1]. |
Sec 4 | Am 2008 No 107, Sch 3 [1]; 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [1]; 2010 No 34, Sch 2.1; 2019 No 14, Sch 1.2[1]; 2024 No 71, Sch 1[1]; 2025 No 13, Sch 1[1]; 2025 No 62, Sch 3[1]. |
Sec 4A | Ins 2010 No 19, Sch 2.1 [2]. |
Sec 6 | Am 2007 No 5, Sch 1 [1]; 2010 No 19, Sch 2.1 [3]. |
Sec 7 | Subst 2025 No 13, Sch 1[2]. |
Sec 8 | Am 2010 No 19, Sch 2.1 [4]; 2025 No 13, Sch 1[3]. |
Sec 10 | Am 2024 No 47, Sch 1.7. |
Sec 12 | Am 2007 No 5, Sch 1 [2]; 2008 No 23, Sch 3.5 [1] [2]; 2019 No 14, Sch 1.2[2] [3]. |
Sec 16 | Am 2024 No 71, Sch 1[2] [3]. |
Sec 18 | Am 2008 No 23, Sch 3.5 [3]. |
Sec 19 | Am 2008 No 107, Sch 3 [2]. |
Sec 20 | Am 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (3). |
Part 3, Div 6 (sec 22A) | Ins 2016 No 11, Sch 2. |
Sec 23 | Am 2000 No 75, Sch 2.1 [1]; 2013 No 79, Sch 2 [1]–[3]. |
Sec 24 | Subst 2000 No 75, Sch 2.1 [2]. |
Sec 24A | Ins 2000 No 75, Sch 2.1 [3]. |
Sec 25 | Am 2000 No 75, Sch 2.1 [4]; 2013 No 1, Sch 1.2 [1] [2]; 2013 No 79, Sch 2 [4]. |
Sec 25A | Ins 2008 No 107, Sch 3 [3]. Subst 2020 No 22, Sch 2[1]. |
Part 4A (secs 25B–25E) | Ins 2010 No 102, Sch 2.2 [1]. |
Part 5, Div 1 | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [1]. |
Sec 25F | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [1]. Am 2012 No 42, Sch 1.4 [1]; 2013 No 4, Sch 2.2; 2017 No 53, Sch 4.3; 2017 No 68, Sch 2.2; 2020 No 12, Sch 3.2[1] [2]. |
Part 5, Div 2, heading | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [1]. |
Sec 27 | Subst 2009 No 59, Sch 1 [1]. |
Sec 28 | Am 2007 No 5, Sch 1 [3] [4]; 2008 No 62, Sch 1.4 [1] [2]; 2009 No 59, Sch 1 [2]; 2024 No 59, Sch 2.2. |
Secs 29A, 29B | Ins 2009 No 59, Sch 1 [3]. |
Sec 29C | Ins 2009 No 59, Sch 1 [3]. Am 2010 No 73, Sch 2.1; 2010 No 102, Sch 2.2 [2]. |
Sec 30 | Am 2009 No 59, Sch 1 [4]. |
Part 5, Div 3 | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [2]. |
Secs 31A, 31B | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [2]. |
Sec 31C | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [2]. Am 2012 No 42, Sch 1.4 [2]. |
Sec 31D | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [2]. Am 2012 No 42, Sch 1.4 [3]–[6]. |
Secs 31E–31H | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [2]. |
Part 5, Div 4 | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [3]. |
Sec 31I | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [3]. |
Sec 31J | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [3]. Am 2012 No 42, Sch 1.4 [7]; 2013 No 95, Sch 2.13 [1]. |
Sec 31K | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [3]. Am 2012 No 42, Sch 1.4 [8]; 2020 No 12, Sch 3.2[1]. |
Sec 31L | Ins 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [3]. Am 2013 No 95, Sch 2.13 [2] [3]. |
Part 5A | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Part 5A, Div 1 | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32A | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Am 2008 No 107, Sch 3 [4]; 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [2] [3]. Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Part 5A, Div 2 | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32B | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Am 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [4]; 2018 No 28, Sch 3 [1] [2]. Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Part 5A, Div 3 | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32C | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Am 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [4]; 2019 No 14, Sch 1.2[4] [5]. Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32D | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Am 2018 No 28, Sch 3 [3]. Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Part 5A, Div 4 | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32DA | Ins 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [5]. Am 2018 No 28, Sch 3 [4] [5]. Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32DB | Ins 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [5]. Am 2019 No 14, Sch 1.2[6] [7]. Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32DBA | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32DC | Ins 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [5]. Am 2018 No 28, Sch 3 [6]. Rep 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32DD | Ins 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [5]. Rep 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Part 5A, Div 5 | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32E | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. Am 2025 No 62, Sch 3[2]. |
Sec 32F | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. Am 2025 No 62, Sch 3[3]. |
Part 5A, Div 6 | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32G | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Rep 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [6]. Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32GA | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32GB | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32GC | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32GD | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32GE | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32GF | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Part 5A, Div 7 | Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32H | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Rep 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [7]. Ins 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32I | Ins 1996 No 22, Sch 2 (4). Subst 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 32J | Ins 2008 No 53, Sch 1 [8]. Rep 2024 No 71, Sch 1[4]. |
Sec 38 | Am 2009 No 41, Sch 3.2 [1] [2]; 2019 No 14, Sch 1.2[3]. |
Sec 39 | Am 2009 No 41, Schs 3.2 [3]–[5], 4; 2019 No 14, Sch 1.2[2] [3]. |
Sec 42 | Am 2022 No 17, Sch 1A.1[1]. |
Part 8, Div 4, heading | Am 2013 No 1, Sch 1.2 [3]. |
Sec 46A | Ins 2009 No 59, Sch 1 [5]. Am 2013 No 1, Sch 1.2 [4] [5]. |
Sec 49 | Am 2000 No 75, Sch 2.1 [5]; 2008 No 62, Sch 1.4 [3]; 2008 No 107, Sch 3 [5] [6]; 2010 No 102, Sch 2.2 [3]; 2013 No 79, Sch 2 [5]; 2020 No 22, Sch 2[2]; 2022 No 17, Sch 1A.1[2] (SLR 2023 No 7, Sch 2.50); 2025 No 62, Sch 3[4] [5]. |
Sec 51 | Am 2009 No 41, Sch 4. |
Sec 51A | Ins 2025 No 62, Sch 3[6]. |
Sec 52 | Am 2000 No 75, Sch 2.1 [6] [7]. Subst 2010 No 102, Sch 2.2 [4]. |
Part 8, Div 5 (secs 55A, 55B) | Ins 2007 No 5, Sch 1 [5]. |
Sec 56 | Subst 1997 No 77, Sch 5.4. Am 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [4]; 2013 No 95, Sch 2.13 [4] [5]. |
Sec 63 | Am 2001 No 121, Sch 2.24; 2007 No 94, Sch 2. |
Secs 65, 66 | Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4. |
Schs 1, 2 | Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4. |
Sch 3 | Am 2007 No 5, Sch 1 [6]–[8]; 2008 No 23, Sch 3.5 [4] [5]; 2008 No 107, Sch 3 [7]; 2009 No 59, Sch 1 [6] [7]; 2010 No 19, Sch 2.1 [5]; 2010 No 102, Sch 2.2 [5]; 2012 No 14, Sch 1 [5] [6]; 2012 No 42, Sch 1.4 [9]; 2013 No 1, Sch 1.2 [6] [7]. |
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