Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 3

3 Objects

The objects of this Act are to provide for—

(a) the collection and maintenance, in registers kept by the registrar, of information about—

(i) births, deaths, marriages, adoptions, changes of name and reassignments of sex; and

(ii) changes of parentage under the Surrogacy Act 2010 ; and

(iii) changes of parentage under a cultural recognition order made under the Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Act 2020 ; and

(iv) another matter that the registrar is required to keep under another Act; and

(b) access, in appropriate cases, to information in a register maintained for those purposes; and

(c) the issue of certified and uncertified information from a register; and

(d) the collection and dissemination of statistical information.