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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995
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42 Registration
> > (1) The Registrar registers a death by making an entry about the death in the Register including the particulars required by the regulations.
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> > (2) However, if the particulars available to the Registrar are incomplete the Registrar may register a death on the basis of incomplete particulars.
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> > (3) If the Registrar receives a cause of death certificate referred to in the [Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2022-017), section 87(6), the Registrar must register the death in the Register by making an entry about the death that records—
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> > > (a) the cause of death as the disease, illness or medical condition with which the person had been diagnosed that made the person eligible to access voluntary assisted dying, and
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> > > (b) the person was the subject of a voluntary assisted dying authority under the [Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2022-017) and voluntary assisted dying was the manner of death.
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> **s 42:** Am 2022 No 17, Sch 1A.1\[1\].