Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill 2022 (Qld)

An Act to provide for the registration of births, deaths and marriages, and for other purposes, and to amend this Act, the Adoption Act 2009, the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, the Coroners Act 2003, the Corrective Services Act 2006, the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003, the Guardianship and Administration Act 2000, the Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Act 2020, the Powers of Attorney Act 1998, and the legislation mentioned in schedule 3, for particular purposes The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2022.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

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, civil partnerships, adoptions, changes of name and alterations of sex; and (ii) transfers of parentage under the Surrogacy Act 2010; and (iii) transfers of parentage 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 information about under another Act; and (b) the issue of documents that acknowledge the name and sex of persons who are resident in Queensland and were born outside of Queensland; and (c) access, in appropriate cases, to information— (i) in a register mentioned in paragraph (a); or (ii) collected and maintained under section 105; and (d) the issue of certified and uncertified information from a register; and (e) the collection and dissemination of statistical information.