Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Regulations 2019 (Vic)

Version No. 004

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Regulations 2019

S.R. No. 78/2019

Version incorporating amendments as at

11 November 2025

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Definition

5Fees

Schedule 1—Fees

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Endnotes

1     General information

2     Table of Amendments

3     Explanatory details

Version No. 004

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Regulations 2019

S.R. No. 78/2019

Version incorporating amendments as at

11 November 2025

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe fees for the purposes of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 59 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 21 September 2019.

4Definition

In these Regulations—

the Act means the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996.

5Fees

For the purposes of the Act, the fees are those set out in Schedule 1.

SCHEDULE 1—FEES

Regulation 5

Item	Section of the Act	Description of fee	Fee
1	25(2)	Application to register change of name (adult)	5×18 fee units
2	26(2)	Application to register change of name (child)	5×18 fee units
3.	30A (3)(c)(ii)	Application to alter record of sex in person's birth registration	nil
3A.	30B (3)(c)(ii)	Application to alter record of sex in child's birth registration	nil
4	30E(4)(d)	Application for document acknowledging person's name and sex	nil
4A.	30EA (4)(d)	Application for document acknowledging child's name and sex	nil
5	43(6)	Application to add, alter or delete registrable information to an entry in the Register	5×18 fee units
6	45(2)(b)	Application for search of the Register	nil
7	46(1)	Application for issue of a certificate certifying the results of a search of the Register	3∙42 fee units
8	57(3)	Inspection of and, on request, supply of a certified copy of an entry in a register, book of entries or register book in the possession of another person which has not been forwarded to the Registrar under section 31 of the Marriage Act 1898, relating to the period before 18 January 1853	nil

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ENDNOTES

1   General information

See for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Regulations 2019, S.R. No. 78/2019 were made on 10 September 2019 by the Governor in Council under section 59 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996, No. 43/1996 and came into operation on 21 September 2019: regulation 3.

The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Regulations 2019 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 10 September 2029 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. 
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule.  Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001.  Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs.  See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note.  As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision.  For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision.  See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2   Table of Amendments

This publication incorporates amendments made to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Regulations 2019 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2020, S.R. No. 25/2020

Date of Making:	21.4.20
Date of Commencement:	Reg. 8 on 1.5.20: reg. 3

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2022, S.R. No. 9/2022

Date of Making:	15.2.22
Date of Commencement:	1.3.22: reg. 3

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 117/2025

Date of Making:	11.11.25
Date of Commencement:	11.11.25

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3   Explanatory details

Fee Units

These Regulations provide for fees by reference to fee units within the meaning of the Monetary Units Act 2004. The amount of the fee is to be calculated, in accordance with section 7 of that Act, by multiplying the number of fee units applicable by the value of a fee unit.

The value of a fee unit for the financial year commencing 1 July 2025 is $16.81. The amount of the calculated fee may be rounded to the nearest 10 cents.

The value of a fee unit for future financial years is to be fixed by the Treasurer under section 5 of the Monetary Units Act 2004. The value of a fee unit for a financial year must be published in the Government Gazette and a Victorian newspaper before 1 June in the preceding financial year.