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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Searches and disclosure of information - Public access to information - Access register

99: Individual or individual’s representative may request copy of access register

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"Get a copy of your birth, death, or marriage records if you want to"

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You can ask for a copy of the access register if it has information about your birth, death, marriage, civil union, or name change. You can make this request or your personal representative can make it for you. Your representative must have your written permission to make the request. You must follow the Registrar-General's directions when making the request. You may need to pay a fee and show identification to confirm who you are. The Registrar-General will decide what identification is needed. If someone is making the request on your behalf, they must have your written authority to do so, as stated in subsection (1)(b), which you can compare to s 75A(1), (2)(a), (3), (4). They must be properly authorised by you to make the request. This is to ensure that the right person is making the request.

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Public access to information: Access register

99Individual or individual’s representative may request copy of access register

  1. The following persons may request the Registrar-General to provide a copy of all entries made in the access register in relation to information in the registry about an individual’s birth, death, marriage (or intended marriage), civil union, or name change:

  2. the individual who is the subject of the information:
    1. the individual’s personal representative.

      1. The request must—

      2. be made in accordance with any directions issued by the Registrar-General; and
        1. be accompanied by—
          1. the prescribed fee (if any); and
            1. any means of identification that the Registrar-General reasonably requires to confirm the identity of the person making the request.

            2. An individual’s personal representative who makes an application on behalf of the individual under subsection (1)(b) must have the written authority of, or be otherwise properly authorised by, the individual to make the request.

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