Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 48B

48B Registrar may enter into arrangement with family and child commissioner

(1) The registrar may enter into an arrangement with the family and child commissioner about providing to the commissioner information from a register or a source document, or providing to the commissioner a copy of a source document, about—

(a) the births of children, whether particular children, children of a class or children generally; or

(b) the deaths of children, whether particular children, children of a class or children generally.

(2) The registrar may provide information or a copy of a source document to the family and child commissioner under the arrangement.

(3) The registrar and the family and child commissioner must, as far as practicable having regard to the commissioner’s child death research functions, protect the persons to whom the information or source document relates from unjustified intrusion on their privacy.

(4) If the registrar enters into an arrangement with the family and child commissioner, the registrar may charge a fee for the service that is not more than the actual cost of providing the service.

(5) This section applies despite sections 44 to 46 and 48 .

(6) In this section—

"child death research functions" , for the family and child commissioner, means the commissioner’s functions under the Family and Child Commission Act 2014 , part 3 .