Queensland Numbered Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2023 - SECT 29

29 Application by parents and others to register change of eligible child’s name

(1) An eligible child’s parents may apply to register a change of the child’s name.

(2) However, 1 of the parents may apply to register a change of the eligible child’s name if—

(a) the parent is the only parent of the child entered in the relevant child register or shown on the child’s birth certificate; or

(b) the other parent is dead and there is no other person with parental responsibility for the child; or

(c) the parent has sole parental responsibility, under a parenting order made under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cwlth) , part VII, to make decisions about—

(i) major long-term issues for the child; or

(ii) the child’s name; or

(d) a Magistrates Court approves the change of name under section 30 .

(3) A person may apply to register a change of an eligible child’s name if—

(a) circumstances stated in column 1 of the table in schedule 1 , part 1 apply to the person in relation to the child; and

(b) the person is a person mentioned in column 2 of the table opposite those circumstances.

(4) Two or more persons may apply to register a change of an eligible child’s name if—

(a) circumstances stated in column 1 of the table in schedule 1 , part 2 apply to the persons in relation to the child; and

(b) the persons are persons mentioned in column 2 of the table opposite those circumstances.

(5) An application made under this section must be—

(a) in the form required by the registrar and made in an approved way; and

(b) accompanied by the fee prescribed by regulation.

(6) In this section—

"register a change" , of an eligible child’s name, means register a change of the child’s name in the change of name register.