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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Registration of information - Births - Registration of information relating to parents’ subsequent marriage or civil union

21: Parents may request that birth record include information relating to parents’ marriage or civil union after child’s birth

You could also call this:

"Adding marriage or civil union details to a child's birth record"

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You can ask for a child's birth record to include information about your marriage or civil union if it happened after the child was born. You can make this request if you are the child's parents and you marry or enter into a civil union with each other after the child's birth. You must make the request with the other parent, but if one parent is dead, unknown, missing, or unable to act, then one parent can make the request.

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Part 2Registration of information
Births: Registration of information relating to parents’ subsequent marriage or civil union

21Parents may request that birth record include information relating to parents’ marriage or civil union after child’s birth

  1. A child’s parents who marry or enter into a civil union with each other after the child’s birth may request that information relating to the marriage or civil union be registered in the child’s birth record.

  2. The request must be made—

  3. jointly by both parents; or
    1. if 1 parent is dead, unknown, missing, of unsound mind, or unable to act by virtue of a medical condition, by 1 parent.

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