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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997
34Circumstances in which deaths are not to be registered
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34 Circumstances in which deaths are not to be registered
(1) The registrar-general must not register a death unless the
registrar-general has been given—
(a) a notice under section 35; or
(b) a notice under the Coroners Act 1997, section 56; or
(c) a document issued, made or given under the law of a State, the
Commonwealth, another Territory or any other place that the
registrar-general is satisfied is equivalent to a document
mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).
(2) However, the registrar-general must register a death if satisfied—
(a) that a court of the Territory, a State, the Commonwealth or
another Territory has found that a person whose death is not
registered in the register died in the ACT; or
(b) that, having regard to the circumstances of the case, it is proper
that the death be registered.