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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997
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40 Correction of register
(1) The registrar-general may correct the register—
(a) to reflect a finding made on an inquiry under division 7.2; or
(b) to bring an entry about a particular registrable event into
conformity with the most reliable information available to the
registrar-general of the registrable event.
(2) The registrar-general must, if satisfied that, in view of a finding of a
court, an entry in the register is incorrect, correct the register in
accordance with the finding.
Inquiries Division 7.2
(3) A correction of the register is effected by adding or cancelling an
entry or by adding, altering or deleting a particular contained in an
entry.
court means a court of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or
another Territory.