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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.