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South Australia
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Recognition of
Same Sex Marital Status) Amendment Bill 2016
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Births,
Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Births, Deaths and
Marriages Registration Act 1996
4Insertion of Part 6 Division 5
Division 5—Details required under this
Part to include same sex marital status
39ADetails required
under this Part to include same sex marital status
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
(Recognition of Same Sex Marital Status) Amendment Act 2016.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after it is assented to by the
Governor.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Act 1996
4—Insertion
of Part 6 Division 5
Part 6—after Division 4 insert:
Division 5—Details required under this Part to
include same sex marital status
39A—Details required under this Part to include
same sex marital status
If, in relation to a deceased person—
(a) this Part requires details of the person's marital status to be stated
or recorded (whether in a statement to the Registrar or in an entry made in the
Register); and
(b) the person's marriage was solemnised as a marriage between 2 persons
of the same sex under the law or custom of an overseas country and is recognised
as a valid marriage under that law or custom,
the person's marital status must be stated, or recorded in the Register, as
"married overseas".