Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 34

    (1)     The registrar-general must not register a death unless the registrar-general has been given—

        (a)     a notice under section 35; or

        (b)     a notice under the Coroners Act 1997

, section 56; or

        (c)     a document issued, made or given under the law of a State, the Commonwealth, another Territory or any other place that the registrar-general is satisfied is equivalent to a document mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

    (2)     However, the registrar-general must register a death if satisfied—

        (a)     that a court of the Territory, a State, the Commonwealth or another Territory has found that a person whose death is not registered in the register died in the ACT; or

        (b)     that, having regard to the circumstances of the case, it is proper that the death be registered.