Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 40

    (1)     The registrar-general may correct the register—

        (a)     to reflect a finding made on an inquiry under division 7.2; or

        (b)     to bring an entry about a particular registrable event into conformity with the most reliable information available to the registrar-general of the registrable event.

    (2)     The registrar-general must, if satisfied that, in view of a finding of a court, an entry in the register is incorrect, correct the register in accordance with the finding.

    (3)     A correction of the register is effected by adding or cancelling an entry or by adding, altering or deleting a particular contained in an entry.

    (4)     In this section:

"court" means a court of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory.