Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 41D

41D Registering change of parentage under parentage order

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a parentage order is made in relation to a child whose birth was registered in Queensland; and

(b) the registrar receives—

(i) an application to register the order and the application contains the information prescribed under a regulation; and

(ii) an original copy of the parentage order.

(2) The registrar must register the transfer of parentage by incorporating into the parentage order register information from the application to register the parentage order and the original copy of the parentage order.

(3) Also, the registrar must close the child’s birth entry by—

(a) noting, on the birth entry (the
"closed entry" ), a reference to the parentage order entry; and

(b) noting, on the new parentage order entry, a reference to the closed entry.