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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997
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5 Notification of births
(1) If a child is born in the ACT, the responsible person must give the
registrar-general written notice of the birth in accordance with
subsection (2).
(2) The notice must—
(a) include the particulars prescribed by regulation and be
accompanied by any certificate required to be given to or by the
relevant doctor under subsection (4); and
(b) be given to the registrar-general within—
(i) for a child born alive—7 days after the day of the birth; or
(ii) for a stillbirth—48 hours after the birth.
(3) In subsection (1):
responsible person means—
(a) if the child was born in a hospital or brought to a hospital within
24 hours after the birth—the chief executive officer of the
hospital; or
(b) in any other case—the doctor or midwife responsible for the
professional care of the birth parent at the birth.
Notification of births Division 2.1
(4) If the birth is a stillbirth, a relevant doctor must, within 48 hours after
the birth, give a certificate of the cause of fetal death to—
(a) if the stillbirth was in a hospital or the body of the stillborn child
was brought to a hospital within 24 hours after the birth—the
chief executive officer of the hospital; or
(b) in any other case—the doctor or midwife responsible for the
professional care of the birth parent at the birth.
(5) In subsection (4):
relevant doctor means—
(a) the doctor responsible for the professional care of the birth
parent at the birth; or
(b) a doctor who examined the body of the stillborn child after the
birth.
(6) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.
(7) Subsection (4) does not apply if the relevant doctor believed, on
reasonable grounds, that another doctor had given the required
6 Meaning of birth registration statement for div 2.2
In this division:
birth registration statement means a statement for this division.