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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Searches and disclosure of information - Public access to information - Non-disclosure directions

102: Subject of information may request non-disclosure direction

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"Keep your personal info private by asking the Registrar-General"

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You can ask the Registrar-General to keep your personal information private. You can do this if you are the person in the information or their personal representative. The Registrar-General decides what information to keep private. You must ask in a certain way and pay a fee if needed. You also need to prove who you are to the Registrar-General. You can only ask to keep information private for certain reasons. You can find more information about this in section 75A of another law.

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Part 4Searches and disclosure of information
Public access to information: Non-disclosure directions

102Subject of information may request non-disclosure direction

  1. The following persons may request that the Registrar-General direct that an individual’s registered information not be disclosed to the public:

  2. in the case of an individual’s birth information, marriage information, civil union information, or name-change information, the individual or the individual’s personal representative:
    1. in the case of an individual’s death information, the individual’s personal representative.

      1. The request must be—

      2. made—
        1. on 1 or more prescribed grounds; and
          1. in accordance with any directions issued by the Registrar-General; and
          2. 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.

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