Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES (NO. 112 OF 1997) - SECT 39

39. (1) The Registrar-General shall maintain a register or registers of registrable events.

(2) The Register—

        (a)     shall contain the particulars of each registrable event required by or under this or any other Act to be included in the Register; and

        (b)     may contain such further information as is authorised by this Act or the regulations.

(3) The Register may be wholly or partly in the form of a computer data base, in documentary form or in such other form as the Registrar-General considers appropriate.

(4) The Registrar-General shall maintain the indexes to the Register that are necessary to make the information in the Register reasonably accessible.

(5) The registers under the repealed Act are incorporated with, and form part of, the Register.