Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act Amendment Act 1979 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES.

No. 99 of 1979.

AN ACT to amend the Registration of Births,

Deaths and Marriages Act, 1961-1975.

[Assented to 17th December, 1979.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Registration fasnhc.in title

of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act Amendment citation.

Act, 1979.

(2) In this Act the Registration of Births, Deaths lirsiulted ,,ed

and Marriages Act, 1961-1975 is referred to as the reprint

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act, 1961-1979.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be proclaimed.

Section 3	3.	Section 3 of the principal Act is amended
amended.

(a)	by inserting the subsection designation "(1)" immediately after the section number "3."; and
(b)	by inserting a subsection as follows:

"this Act"

includes	(2) In and for the purposes of this Act,
regulations

—see s. 4 of	references to death and the registration
the Interpre-
tation Act,	thereof shall be read and construed, with
1918.	such modifications as are necessary, to include each case of the suspected death of a person in respect of which, after inquiry in accordance with the Coroners Act, 1920, it is certified pursuant to section eleven of that Act that the death of the person has been established beyond reasonable doubt, and such suspected death shall be treated as a death and registered as such. .
Section 19

amended. 4. Subsection (2) of section 19 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "therein", in the last line, the passage ", but the foregoing provisions of this subsection do not apply to or in relation to a death registered by virtue of subsection (2) of section three of this Act".

Section 44

amended. 5. Section 44 of the principal Act is amended

(a) by inserting immediately after the word "Coroner" in-

(i) the penultimate line of subsection

(1); and

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(ii) the third line of subsection (3),

the words "or his clerk", in each case;

(b)	as to subsection (4), by deleting the expression "(3)", in line six, and inserting in lieu thereof the expression "(c)"; and
(c)	by inserting a new subsection as follows

(5) Where death is required to be registered by virtue of subsection (2) of section three of this Act, the Coroner shall give to the district registrar the information required by paragraph (c) of section forty-three of the Coroners Act, 1920. .

Section 45B

6. Section 45B of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "register", in the last line, the passage ", but the foregoing provisions of this section do not apply to or in relation to a death that is required to be registered by virtue of subsection (2) of section three of this Act". amended.