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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

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81: Contents of birth certificate issued after correction of information in birth record

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"What's on your birth certificate if your birth record is corrected"

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If you get a birth certificate after a mistake in your birth record is fixed under section 131(a), it will have the correct information. It will not show that a mistake was made. You will get the information that would have been on the certificate if the mistake had never happened. If you get a birth certificate after information about your sex is deleted under section 131(b), it will have the information it would have had if that information was never recorded. It will not show that information about your sex was deleted. If you get a birth certificate after information about your sex is added under section 131(e), it will have the information it would have had if that was always your recorded sex. It will not show that information about your sex was added. If information about your sex is deleted or added, your birth certificate will also have your current name. This is the name you have now, or the name you will have after a name change that happens at the same time. If you change your name after information about your sex is updated, the new name will appear on your birth certificate. This is according to section 80(1). If your recorded sex is a nominated sex, section 27 applies instead of some of these rules. This is if your recorded sex was nominated under section 26.

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Birth certificates

81Contents of birth certificate issued after correction of information in birth record

  1. A birth certificate issued in respect of a person after a clerical error in the registry has been corrected under section 131(a) must contain—

  2. the information that the certificate would contain if the error had never been made; and
    1. no other information that may indicate that a correction has been made.

      1. A birth certificate issued in respect of a person after information in the registry relating to the person’s sex has been deleted under section 131(b) must contain—

      2. the information that it would contain if the deleted information had never been registered; and
        1. no other information that may indicate that information relating to the person’s sex has been deleted under section 131.

          1. A birth certificate issued in respect of a person after information in the registry relating to the person’s sex has been registered under section 131(e) must contain—

          2. the information that it would contain if the person’s registered sex following registration of the information had always been the person’s registered sex; and
            1. no other information that may indicate that information relating to the person’s sex has been registered under section 131(e).

              1. A birth certificate issued in respect of a person after information in the registry relating to the person’s sex has been deleted or registered under section 131(b) or (e) must also contain the information that it would contain if the person’s name since birth had been—

              2. the person’s registered name at the time of the most recent registration or deletion of information relating to the person’s sex; or
                1. if an application for a name change was made by or on behalf of the person at the same time as a request for the registration or deletion of information relating to the person’s sex, the person's name following registration of that name change.

                  1. Despite subsection (4), any information relating to a name change after the most recent registration, correction, or deletion of information relating to the person’s sex (other than a name change described in subsection (4)(b)) must appear on a birth certificate issued after the name change in accordance with section 80(1).

                  2. Section 27 applies instead of subsections (3) to (5) if the person’s registered sex at the time the birth certificate is issued is a nominated sex registered under section 26.

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