146Registration of birth of child of detainee

146 Registration of birth of child of detainee

(1)  In this section,

[Section 146 Subsection (1) amended by No. 1 of 2003, s. 20, Applied:16 Apr 2003] birth record means a document made or issued under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 in relation to the birth of a child or an alteration or addition to such a document or the name of a child.

(2)  If a birth record is made or issued relating to a child whose mother or father is a detainee when the child is born –

(a) the birth record is not to state that fact or contain information from which that fact can reasonably be inferred; and

(b) an address that cannot be shown in the birth record by reason of paragraph (a) is to be shown instead as the city or town in which or nearest to which that address is situated.