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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999
40The Register
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### 40 The Register
> > (1) The Registrar must maintain a register or registers of registrable events.
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> > (2) The Register –
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> > > > (a) must contain the particulars of each registrable event required under this Act, or another law, to be included in the Register; and
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> > > > (b) may contain further information if the Registrar considers its inclusion appropriate.
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> > (3) The Register may be wholly or partly in the form of a computer database, in documentary form, or in another form the Registrar considers appropriate.
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> > (4) The Registrar must maintain the indexes to the Register that are necessary to make the information contained in the Register reasonably accessible.