Queensland Numbered Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2023 - SECT 55

55 Application to Childrens Court by parent or other person

(1) This section applies if the person is a child under 16 years.

(2) The Childrens Court may, on application by an eligible person for the child, make an order directing the registrar to accept an application for a recognised details certificate for the child.

(3) The application must be accompanied by an assessment of the child.

(4) The Childrens Court must make the order if the court is satisfied it is in the child’s best interests to make the order.

(5) In deciding whether making the order is in the child’s best interests, the matters to which the Childrens Court may have regard include the following—

(a) the assessment mentioned in subsection (3) ;

(b) the views of the child, however expressed;

(c) whether the child is sufficiently mature to understand the meaning and legal implications of the issue of a recognised details certificate for the child.

(6) If an eligible person for the child makes an application to the Childrens Court under this section the person may apply to the court at the same time for approval of a proposed change of first name for the child.

(7) Subsection (6) does not apply if the child was born in another State.

(8) The Childrens Court may make an order approving the proposed change of first name for the child if—

(a) the name is not a prohibited name; and

(b) the court is satisfied that the change is in the child’s best interests.