Victorian Current Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1996 - SECT 43

    (1)     The Registrar may correct the Register—

        (a)     to reflect a finding made on inquiry under Division 2; or

        (b)     to bring an entry about a particular registrable event into conformity with the most reliable information available to the Registrar of the registrable event.

    (2)     The Registrar must, if required by a court, correct the Register.

    (3)     The Registrar corrects the Register by adding or cancelling an entry in the Register or by adding, altering or deleting particulars contained in an entry.

    (4)     Subject to section 16, the Registrar may add additional registrable information to an entry in the Register.

S. 43(5) amended by No. 25/2019 s. 17.

    (5)     A person may apply to the Registrar for the addition, alteration or deletion of registrable information to an entry in the Register.

    (6)     An application under subsection (5) must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

    (7)     Despite anything to the contrary in the Adoption Act 1984 , the Registrar—

        (a)     may correct an original birth entry in respect of an adopted person; and

        (b)     subject to section 16, may add additional registrable information to that entry.

Division 4—Access to and certification of Register entries