Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Act 1987 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Ordinance 1987

No. 51 of 1987

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 13 September 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN BROWN

Minister of State for the Arts, Sport, the Environment,
Tourism and Territories

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

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages  (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.1

Principal Ordinance

2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Ordinance 1963.2

Change of child’s surname

3.  Section 20 of the Principal Ordinance is amended:

(a)by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “and” (last occurring); and

(b)by adding at the end of subsection (2) the following word and paragraph:

“; and(d)   the determined fee is paid to the Commonwealth.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 September 1987.

2. No. 17, 1963 as amended by No. 19, 1966; No. 47, 1974; No. 29, 1975; Nos. 18, 50 and 58, 1977; No. 17, 1979; Nos. 24 and 40, 1980; No. 32, 1981; Nos. 52 and 80, 1982; No. 41, 1983; Nos. 8 and 31, 1986.