Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION REGULATION 2024 - REG 18

18 Fees

(1) The fees payable under the Act are in schedule 2 .

(2) An application fee must accompany an application to the registrar.

(3) The registrar may waive, wholly or partly, payment of a fee stated in schedule 2 .

(4) In deciding whether to wholly or partly waive a fee the registrar may have regard to the following factors—

(a) whether the applicant is experiencing financial hardship;

(b) whether the provision of the service or thing applied for would improve the applicant’s circumstances;

(c) whether, in the registrar’s opinion, waiver of the fee is otherwise desirable in the circumstances.

(5) The registrar may refund all or part of a fee paid.