Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997
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70 Regulation-making power (1) The Executive may make regulations for this Act. (2) A regulation may make provision in relation to— (a) the provision of copies of, or extracts from, entries in the register about relevant children; and (b) the making, correction or cancellation of entries in the register about relevant children. (3) A regulation may also prescribe offences for contraventions of a regulation and prescribe maximum penalties of not more than 10 penalty units for offences against a regulation.
Miscellaneous Part 10 relevant children—a child is a relevant child if a parentage order has been made about the child under— (a) the Parentage Act 2004, section 28H; or (b) a corresponding parentage law.