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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Fees, offences and penalties, regulations, and other miscellaneous provisions - Fees

137: Fees

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"Charges for some services under the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act"

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You can be charged a fee for some services under this Act. The Registrar-General can refuse to do something if you have not paid the fee. The Registrar-General has the power to not charge you a fee or to give you a refund. You do not have to pay a fee to access certain information about a person who has died, if it has been 10 years or more since they died, and the information is from section 48.

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Part 6Fees, offences and penalties, regulations, and other miscellaneous provisions
Fees

137Fees

  1. If empowered by this Act or any other Act to perform any act for which a fee is payable, the Registrar-General may refuse to perform the act until the fee is paid.

  2. Despite anything in this Act, the Registrar-General may—

  3. dispense with the payment of all or any part of any fee payable under this Act; or
    1. refund all or any part of any fee paid under this Act.

      1. Despite anything in this Act, a fee is not payable, within 10 years after the death of a person, for providing access to information registered under section 48 in respect of a person.

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