Function

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES

The Registrar-Generals Office (RGO) administers the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997, and has responsibilities under the Birth (Equality of Status) Act 1988, Adoption Act 1993, Artificial Conception Act 1985, Registration of Deaths Abroad Act 1984 and the Marriages Act 1961(Cwlth).
The function requires the Registrar-General's Office to:
Record in perpetuity; births, deaths, marriages, parentage, adoptions, deaths abroad and overseas marriages ;
Provide documentation on these events to individuals to help establish a range of legal entitlements; and
Collect statistical data for Government and other organisations.
(* For the purposes of this document the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) includes Jervis Bay Territory.)
The Registrar-General is required to keep a register of registrable events under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997. The register -
must contain the particulars of each registrable event required by or under this or any other Act to be included in the register; and
may contain such further information as is authorised by this Act or the regulations.
The register may be wholly or partly in the form of a computer database, in documentary form or in such other form as the Registrar-General considers appropriate.
The Registrar-General must maintain the indexes to the register that are necessary to make the information in the register reasonably accessible.

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