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

N o . 17 of 1979

An Ordinance to amend the Registration of Births, Deaths and Mar­ riages Ordinance 1963

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS A N D MARRIAGES

( A M E N D M E N T ) ORDINANCE 1979

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.'

2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Registration

of Births, Deaths and Marriages Ordinance 1963.2

3. This Ordinance shall come into operation on 1 July 1979.

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel-also accessible at

4. The Fifth Schedule to the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting " 4 " from the third column ofitem 1 and substituting " 5 " .

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1979.

2.   Ordinance No. 17, 1963 as amended by No. 19, 1966; No. 47, 1974; No. 29, 1975; and Nos. 18, 50 and 58, 1977.