Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act Amendment Act 1974 (Qld)

117 (Q1UtM1=br ANNO VICESIMO TERTIO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 9 of 1974 An Act to amend The Registration of Births , Deaths and Marriages Acts 1962 to 1967 in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 18TH APRIL, 1974] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title and citation . (1) This Act may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act Amendment Act 1974. (2) The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act of 1962 as subsequently amended is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act1962-1974. 2. Commencement . This Act shall commence on a date appointed by Proclamation.

118 Registration of Births, Etc., Act Amendment Act 1974, No. 9 3. Amendment of s. 22. Section 22 of the Principal Act is amended- by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:- " (IA) In making a certified extract from an entry in a register relating to the birth of a child registered prior to the commencement of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act Amendment Act 1974, the Registrar-General or, as the case may be, district registrar shall show as the surname of the child- (a) the surname of the father, where a person is registered as the father of the child; (b) the surname of the mother- (i) where no person is registered as the father of the child; or (ii) where the Registrar-General has approved an application by the mother under section 28A and there is entered in the appropriate registration a marginal note showing the surname of the mother as the surname of the child. Every certified extract made under this subsection shall, if otherwise correct, be deemed to be a true extract from the original entry in the register.". 4. New s. 27A. The Principal Act is amended by inserting after section 27 the following section:- " 27A. Entry of child ' s surname in register . The name to be entered in the register of births as the surname of a child shall be- (a) the surname of the father, where a person is registered as the father of the child; (b) the surname of the mother, where no person is registered as the father of the child.". 5. Amendment of s. 28. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended by, in subsection (4), omitting the word " twenty-one " and substituting the figures " 18 ". 6. New s. 28A. The Principal Act is amended by inserting after section 28 the following section:- " 28A. Provisions re surname of illegitimate child. The Registrar- General, upon application in the prescribed form by the mother of an illegitimate child- (a) in respect of whom a person is registered as the father under section 25; (b) who has not attained the age of 18 years; and (c) who has not been previously married, and upon production of evidence satisfactory to him that the child is known and has, for a continuous period of not less than one year immediately preceding the date of the application, been known by the surname of the mother at the date when the child was born- .(d) may, in respect of a birth registered after the commencement of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act Amendment Act 1974, by a marginal note in the appropriate registration, enter a change of surname of the child to that of the mother at the date when the child was born;

Registration oj'Births, Etc., Act Amendment Act 1974, No. 9 119 (e) may, in respect of a birth registered before the commencement of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act Amendment Act 1974, where an application under this section is approved, by a marginal note in the appropriate registration, enter a memorial of the application and the surname of the mother at the date when the child was born as the surname of the child.".