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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Searches and disclosure of information - Public access to information - General searches

89: Registrar-General may make certain limited information available to search online

You could also call this:

"You can search online for some birth, marriage, and death information"

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You can search for some information online. The Registrar-General can make certain details available on their website. You can find the year a birth was registered and the name of the person born. You can also find the year a marriage or civil union was registered and the names of the people involved. You can search for the year a death was registered and the name of the person who died. The Registrar-General can also make the folio number available for births, marriages, or deaths recorded before 1998. Some information may not be available if it has a non-disclosure direction under section 103.

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Part 4Searches and disclosure of information
Public access to information: General searches

89Registrar-General may make certain limited information available to search online

  1. The Registrar-General may make the following information available to search on an Internet site maintained by, or on behalf of, the Registrar-General:

  2. in respect of a birth (including a stillbirth), the year the birth was registered and the name of the person born:
    1. in respect of a marriage or civil union, the year the marriage or civil union was registered and the name of the parties to the marriage or civil union:
      1. in respect of a death, the year the death was registered and the name at death of the person who died.

        1. The Registrar-General may also make available, in respect of a birth, marriage, or death recorded in a pre-1998 register, the folio number for the information.

        2. Information that is subject to a non-disclosure direction under section 103 may not be made available under this section.