Western Australian Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1998 - SECT 49

49 .         The Register

        (1)         The Registrar must maintain a register or registers of registrable events (the Register ).

        (2)         The Register —

            (a)         must contain the particulars of each registrable event required under this Act, or any other written law, to be included in the Register; and

            (b)         may contain further information if its inclusion is considered appropriate by the Registrar.

        (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.

        (4)         The Registrar must maintain the indexes to the Register that are necessary to make the information contained in the Register reasonably accessible.