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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Searches and disclosure of information - Public access to information - Named person searches

94: Page of pre-1998 register accessed electronically may contain additional information

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"Old birth, death, and marriage records online may show extra details"

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You can look at a page from an old register on a computer. The Registrar-General will only let you see the page if it has information about the person you are looking for. This information can be about their birth, death, marriage, or name change. You might see other information about the person or someone else on the page. This could include secret information or a note that has been removed. The note might have been removed because of a rule in section 110. You can only see the page if you asked to see it under section 91. The page will only have information about the person you asked about. The Registrar-General decides what you can see on the page.

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

94Page of pre-1998 register accessed electronically may contain additional information

  1. The Registrar-General may provide electronic access to a page of a pre-1998 register requested under section 91 only if the page contains historical information relating to the birth, death, marriage (or intended marriage), civil union, or name change of the named person specified in the request.

  2. The page may also contain other information relating to that person or another person, including either or both of the following:

  3. restricted information:
    1. a notation that is deemed to be deleted or expunged under section 110.