Victorian Current Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1996 - SECT 30EB

    (1)     An application under section 30EA to the Registrar for a document that acknowledges a child's name and sex may be made by one parent if—

        (a)     the applicant is the sole parent named in the registration of the child's birth; or

        (b)     there is no other surviving parent of the child; or

        (c)     the Court makes an order under section 30EC(3) that the Registrar issue a document that acknowledges the child's name and sex.

    (2)     An application under section 30EA to the Registrar for a document that acknowledges a child's name and sex may be made by the child's guardian if—

        (a)     the parents of the child are dead, cannot be found or for some other reason cannot exercise their parental responsibilities in relation to the child; or

        (b)     the Court makes an order under section 30EC(3) that the Registrar issue a document that acknowledges the child's name and sex.

S. 30EC inserted by No. 25/2019 s. 10.