Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999
51Additional services
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51 Additional services
(1) The Registrar may enter into an arrangement for the provision of additional services in connection with the provision of services relating to a registrable event, including, but not limited to –
(a) the provision of information in the form of a decorative certificate or other document; and
(b) the provision of information from records maintained under section 50 relating to the registrable event.
(1A) [Section 51 Subsection (1A) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 23, Applied:05 Sep 2019] Despite anything contrary in the Act, the Registrar may provide information about the sex or gender registered in relation to a person –
(a) in respect of a living person, to a person eligible to make an application under section 44 ; or
(b) in respect of a deceased person born at least 100 years earlier.
(2) The Registrar may enter into an arrangement for the provision of information from records maintained under section 50 or the Register, including historical or genealogical information.
(3) If the Registrar provides a service or an additional service under this section, the Registrar may make a charge for the service determined by the Registrar, in his or her absolute discretion, which does not necessarily bear a relation to the cost of providing the service.
(4) In providing a service or an additional service, the Registrar must comply with section 43(3) and section 45 .