Western Australian Repealed Acts Western Australian Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART I -- Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Repeal. First Schedule
3. Interpretation
PART II -- Administration
4. Appointment of, and administration of Act by, Registrar General
5. Registry districts
6. District registrars and assistant district registrars
6A. Powers of registration officers
7. Temporary vacancy in office of Registrar General
8. Notice to be exhibited outside office of district registrar or assistant district registrar
9. Duty of district registrar to obtain and forward information to Registrar General
10. Duty of Registrar General to register births, deaths and marriages
11. Records to be kept by assistant district registrar
12. Registrar General to provide copies of lost, mislaid, etc., duplicates
13. Registrar General to supply registers, books to district registrars and ministers
14. Registrar General to provide seal for use on documents
15. Power to prescribe certificates of causes of death to be supplied by medical practitioner
16. Indexes to be kept by Registrar General and district registrar
17. Power of Registrar General to register birth, death or marriage
18. Searches of register and certified copies of searches
19. Certified copies of register or entries of registers to be prima facie evidence
PART III -- Registration of births
20. Duty of parent to register birth
21. Registration of birth of illegitimate child
21A. Surname to be entered in register of births
22. All births to be registered
24. Registration of birth after 12 months from date thereof
25. Appeal from Registrar General
26. Certain registrations not to be evidence
28. Registration of births of children born out of the State
29. Registration of name after registration of birth
30. Registration of change of name
31. Information respecting foundlings to be given
PART IIIA -- Temporary provision for registration of previously unregistered births
31A. Registration of previously unregistered birth
31B. Order to register
PART IV -- Registration of deaths
32. Registration of deaths within 14 days of death
33. Commanders of ships to report deaths
34. Commander of aircraft to report deaths
35. Person in charge of anatomy school to furnish particulars of death
41. Medical certificates as to cause of death
42. Cause of death to be entered in register
43. Penalty
44. Medical practitioner to notify Coroner in certain cases and not give death certificate
45. Certificate of minister and undertaker
45A. Removal of the body of a person from the State
45B. No registration of death without entry of manner of disposal
46. Product of birth deemed to be body of person
PART V -- Registration of marriages
47. Official certificate to be forwarded
48. Registration of marriage after original failure to register
49. Registrar of Supreme Court to forward details of divorces and nullity decrees
50. Orders or decrees of divorce or nullity of competent court registrable in respect of marriages celebrated in the State
PART VI -- Registration of legitimated children
51. Notice of legitimated child born in the State
52. Registration of birth of legitimated child born outside the State
53. Father to make statutory declaration if requested by Registrar General
54. Power to Registrar General to register birth
55. Power to Registrar General to authorize registration of birth of legitimated children in certain cases
56. Registrations to be in form of Second Schedule
57. Legitimated child may use name of father
PART VII -- Miscellaneous and penalties
58. Power of minister or district registrar to require information of birth, death or marriage
59. Offence of failing to give particulars of a birth or death
60. Power of Registrar General to require attendance of persons and information from persons
61. Offences
62. Offence by Registrar General and others
63. Information papers to contain declaration
63A. District registrar prohibited from making entry in register except by authority of Registrar General
63B. Prohibition of demand of extracts, etc.
64. No prosecution without authority of Registrar General
65. Correction of errors in registers
66. Power of Registrar General to impound altered extracts or certified copies
67. Omission of informant’s signature not to render entries inadmissible in evidence
68. Entries as to registration of births of adopted persons
69. Right of ministers to receive fees
70. Sections of Second Schedule of Interpretation Act 1918, incorporated
71. Power of Governor to amend forms in schedules
72. Fees
73. Regulations
73A. Application to amend register within 6 months of prescribed day
74. Cost of administration
1st Schedule
2nd Schedule
3rd Schedule
4th Schedule
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