Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995
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6 Registrar’s general functions
6 Registrar’s general functions
The Registrar’s general functions are—
(a) to establish and maintain the registers1 necessary for the purposes of this Act and the Relationships Register Act 2010, and
(a1) to maintain the integrity of the Register and to seek to prevent identity fraud associated with the Register and the information extracted from the Register, and
(b) to administer the registration system established by this Act and ensure that the system operates efficiently, effectively and economically, and
(c) to ensure that this Act is administered in the way best calculated to achieve its objects.
Note.
1The registers are collectively referred to as the “Register”. See section 43.
s 6: Am 2007 No 5, Sch 1 [1]; 2010 No 19, Sch 2.1 [3].