New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 3

3 Objects of Act

The objects of this Act are to provide for--

(a) the registration of births, deaths and marriages in New South Wales, and

(b) the registration of adoption information, and

(c) the registration of changes of name and the recording of changes of sex, and

(d) the keeping of registers for recording and preserving information about births, adoptions, deaths, marriages, registered relationships, changes of name and changes of sex in perpetuity, and

(e) access to the information in the registers in appropriate cases by government or private agencies and members of the public, from within and outside the State, and

(f) the issue of certified information from the registers, and

(g) the collection and dissemination of statistical information.