Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 57

57 Transitional provisions

(1) A certificate or other document issued under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1962 is taken to have been issued under this Act.

(2) The registers kept under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1962 form part of the registers under this Act.

(3) The person holding office as registrar general immediately before the commencement of this Act continues as the registrar under this Act.

(4) The person holding office as deputy registrar general immediately before the commencement of this Act continues as the deputy registrar under this Act.

(5) The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1962 continues to apply to—

(a) an application that was made under that Act but has not been decided before the commencement of this section; and

(b) a document that was lodged under that Act but has not been dealt with before the commencement of this section; and

(c) a notation or registration that was started under that Act but has not been completed before the commencement of this section.

(6) The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1962, sections 32 , 33 and 35 continues to apply to a pre-commencement death as defined in the Coroners Act 2003.