Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION REGULATION 2015

- Made under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003
- As at 4 July 2022
- Reg 81 of 2015

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 2 - INTERPRETATION

   3.      Dictionary
   4.      Meaning of prescribed identification documents

   PART 3 - BIRTHS

   5.      Particulars to be stated in court order for registration of birth—Act, ss 6 and 7
   6.      Circumstances in which registrar may require proof of parentage—Act, s 10
   7.      Changing child’s first name within a year of birth—Act, s 13
   8.      Who may be issued with a certificate of a closed entry relating to a person whose sex has been reassigned—Act, s 14

   PART 4 - CHANGE OF NAME

   9.      Information court may consider when approving change of child’s name—Act, s 17
   10.     Documents required for registering change of name—Act, s 19
   11.     Noting change of name other than by registration—Act, s 20

   PART 5 - REASSIGNMENT OF SEX

   12.     Noting reassignment of sex—Act, s 23

   PART 6 - DEATHS

   13.     Particulars to be stated in court order for registration of death—Act, ss 26 and 31

   PART 7 - MISCELLANEOUS

   14.     Information and documents for registering events in register—Act, ss 41, 41D and 41E
   15.     Particulars for registration of civil partnership—Act, s 25B
   16.     Particulars of termination to be included in the register—Act, s 25C
   17.     Correcting the register—Act, s 42
   18.     Information that may be obtained from register—Act, s 44
   19.     Information to be contained in commemorative birth certificate
   20.     Information to be contained in birth extract
   21.     Information to be contained in commemorative marriage certificate
   22.     Information to be contained in commemorative civil partnership certificate
   23.     Information to be contained in marriage extract
   24.     Information to be contained in civil partnership extract
   25.     Information to be contained in death extract
   26.     Fees
   26A.    Rounding of amounts expressed as numbers of fee units
   27.     Historical information—Act, sch 2
   28.     Prohibited name—Act, sch 2

   PART 8 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

           Division 1 - Transitional provision for Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulation 2015 SL No. 81

   29.     Continuing application of expired regulation to existing applications

           Division 2 - Transitional provision for Relationships (Civil Partnerships) and Other Legislation Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2016

   30.     Civil partnerships under former provisions
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           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4