Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Amendment Act 1900 (WA)

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ANNO SEXAGESIMO QUARTO

VICTORIA, BEGINS

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No. XXXI.

AN ACT to amend the Registration of Births,

Deaths, and Marriages Act, 1894.

[Assented to, 5th December, 190o.]

and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this presentBE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. THIS Act may be cited as the Registration of Births, Short title and in-

Deaths, and Marriages Amendment Act, 1900, and shall be	corporation with 58
construed as one with the Registration of Births, Deaths, and	Viet., 16.
Marriages Act, 1894, hereinafter called the principal Act.

2.      IN this Act the term " prescribed " means prescribed by this

Act or by regulations, and " regulations " means regulations made	Interpretation.
under this Act or the principal Act.

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Repeal of a. 30 of 3. SECTION thirty of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and

principal Act and

the following section is substituted therefor :—

substitution of nea

section.

Registration of 30. (i .) AFTER the expiration of twelve months

births after 12

following the birth of any child in Western Australia, or

months.

following the arrival therein of the child if born at sea or

Registration Act

out of Western Australia, it shall not be lawful for any

(Vic.), 1898, s. 7.

district registrar to register the birth of such child except by

Altered in form

the written authority of the Registrar General, and in

Penalty as in re-

accordance with the regulations, and On payment of the

pealed Act.

prescribed fee; and the fact of such authority having been

given shall be entered on the register.

Registration of

(2.) No registration of a birth shall be made after the expiration of seven years from the date of such birth except by the authority of a Judge of the Supreme Court, and the fact of such authority having been given and the date when it was given shall be entered in the register.

birth after seven

Register not to be (3.) No register, or certified copy of any entry in the

evidence of birth if	register, shall be evidence to prove the birth of any child
made after twelve
months from birth	wherein it shall appear that twelve months have intervened
unless authorised by	between the clay of the birth and the day of the registration
Registrar General,	of the birth of such child, unless such entry purports to have been made by the written authority and in accordance with the regulations aforesaid ; and 110 register or certified copy as aforesaid shall be evidence to prove the birth of any child
nor if made after	wherein it shall appear that seven years have expired
seven years from	between the clay of the birth and the day of the registration
birth, unless
authorised by Judge.	of the birth of such child, unless such entry purports to have been made by the authority of a Judge of the Supreme Court, the date whereof is entered as aforesaid.
Penalty.	(4.) Every District Registrar who, save as hereinbefore provided, knowingly registers, or causes to be registered, the birth of any child after the expiration of twelve months following the birth of such child, shall, for every such offence, be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding Fifty pounds.

Amendment of s. 4. THE second sub-section of section forty-six of the principal

46 of principal Act

Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following sub-section

is substituted :—

New sub-section. (2.) Every person who shall, for the purposes of registration, give the information contained in any register of births or deaths under this Act shall either

(a.) At the time of giving such information subscribe his name in the column in which his name, description, and place of abode are written, or

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(b.) Forward to the District Registrar, by post, a state-

ment of the particulars required by this Act to be registered, appending thereto a statutory declara- tion or a declaration in the form given in the Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, verifying such particulars and attested by a subscribing Sched"le.

witness.

The District Registrar shall file the statements so sent in to him in their order, and shall mark each statement with a number corresponding with the number of the entry in the register, and shall insert the name of the informant in the proper column.

5. NO existing or future entry in a register kept under the • no t ' • d

principal Act, and no certified copy of any such entry, shall be sibnieliebsy',.11Ladmis-

inadmissible in evidence merely by reason that the entry has not °Iiiissimi of infer"	mantis signature.
been signed by the informant.

6. EVERY person who makes any false statement in the Penalties for false

declaration by this Act required, or in the particulars referred to in declaration.

such declaration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on

conviction thereof, shall be liable to punishment as for wilful and

corrupt perjury.

7. THE Governor may make regulations for the better carrying Regulations.

of this Act into effect, and may, in such regulations, prescribe the fees

to be paid in respect of registrations authorised by this Act.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Administrator.

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SCHEDULE.

Section 4.

I, the undersigned, A. B., of , being the person mentioned in the statement to which this declaration is appended as the [here state whether mentioned as father, informant, or how], do solemnly and sincerely

declare that the particulars given in the said statement are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. And I make this solemn declaration knowing that by the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Amendment Act, 1900, I incur, in case of falsehood, the penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury.

A. B.

Declared by A. B.

in my presence.

[Witness's signature.]

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.