Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES ACT 1963 (REPEALED) - SECT 18

        (a)     where the names of both parents are, or are to be, registered as the names of the child's parents—

              (i)     the maiden name or other surname of the child's mother;

              (ii)     the surname of the child's father; or

              (iii)     a surname formed by combining the mother's maiden name or other surname and the father's surname; or

        (b)     where the name of only one parent is, or is to be, registered as the name of a parent of the child—the maiden name or other surname of that parent.

(1A) Where, within 12 months after the birth of a child, a parent of the child notifies the Registrar-General in writing that the parents disagree as to the name that is, or is to be, registered as the child's surname, the Registrar-General shall, subject to subsection (1D), register as the child's surname the surnames of the parents hyphenated in alphabetical order.

(1B) A parent of a child is not entitled to notify the Registrar-General in accordance with subsection (1A) unless the parent's name is registered, or is registrable, under this Act as the name of a parent of the child.

(1C) For the purposes of subsection (1A), the surname of a child's mother shall be taken to be her surname at the time of the child's birth.

(1D) Where the surname declared by the court, on an application under paragraph 20A (1) (a), to be the surname to be registered as a child's surname is not already registered, the Registrar-General shall enter the surname in the Register of Births as the surname of the child.

(2) Where particulars relating to the birth of a child are furnished to the Registrar-General by a member of the Police Force in pursuance of section fourteen of this Act and the surname of the child has not come to the knowledge of the Registrar-General or of that member of the Police Force, the name to be entered in the Register of Births as the surname of the child, for the purposes of this Act, is such surname as the Registrar-General gives to the child.

Additional name given at baptism or by notice to Registrar-General