Western Australian Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1998 - SECT 3

3 .         Objects of Act

                The objects of this Act are to provide for — 

            (a)         the registration of births, deaths, marriages, changes of name and parentage change information in Western Australia;

            (b)         the keeping of registers for recording and preserving information about births, deaths, marriages, changes of name and parentage changes in perpetuity;

            (c)         access to the information in the registers in appropriate cases by government or private agencies and members of the public, from within and outside the State;

            (d)         the issue of certified and uncertified information from the registers; and

            (e)         the collection and dissemination of statistical information.

        [Section 3 amended by No. 47 of 2008 s. 48.]