New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 55B

55B Additional information services in relation to information in Register and other information

(1) In this section,
"additional information services" means services relating to the information in the Register or any other information collected and maintained under section 55A that are additional to the services otherwise provided by the Registrar under this Act, including the following--

(a) the provision of information relating to a registrable event in the form of a decorative certificate or other document,

(b) the provision of historical and genealogical information.

(2) The Registrar may enter into an arrangement for the provision of additional information services.

(3) The charge for providing an additional information service is--

(a) except as provided by paragraph (b), the amount determined by the Registrar, or

(b) if the regulations under section 54 so provide, the amount fixed by, or determined in accordance with, the regulations.

The charge is not required to bear any relation to the cost of providing the service.

(4) In providing additional information services, the Registrar must, as far as practicable, protect the persons to whom the information concerned relates from unjustified intrusion on their privacy.