Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) If a child is born in the ACT, the responsible person must give the registrar-general written notice of the birth in accordance with subsection (2).
Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(2) The notice must—
(a) include the particulars prescribed by regulation and be accompanied by any certificate required to be given to or by the relevant doctor under subsection (4); and
(b) be given to the registrar-general within—
(i) for a child born alive—7 days after the day of the birth; or
(ii) for a stillbirth—48 hours after the birth.
Note For how documents may be served, see the Legislation Act
, pt 19.5.
(3) In subsection (1):
"responsible person" means—
(a) if the child was born in a hospital or brought to a hospital within 24 hours after the birth—the chief executive officer of the hospital; or
(b) in any other case—the doctor or midwife responsible for the professional care of the birth parent at the birth.
(4) If the birth is a stillbirth, a relevant doctor must, within 48 hours after the birth, give a certificate of the cause of fetal death to—
(a) if the stillbirth was in a hospital or the body of the stillborn child was brought to a hospital within 24 hours after the birth—the chief executive officer of the hospital; or
(b) in any other case—the doctor or midwife responsible for the professional care of the birth parent at the birth.
Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
Note If a form is approved under s 69 for a certificate, the form must be used.
(5) In subsection (4):
"relevant doctor" means—
(a) the doctor responsible for the professional care of the birth parent at the birth; or
(b) a doctor who examined the body of the stillborn child after the birth.
(6) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.
(7) Subsection (4) does not apply if the relevant doctor believed, on reasonable grounds, that another doctor had given the required certificate.