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SURROGACY ACT 2008 - SECT 39

39 .         Portion of registration of birth not referring to parentage order

        (1)         At the request of —

            (a)         an arranged parent of the child, if the child has not reached 16 years of age; or

            (b)         the child, if the child has reached 16 years of age,

                the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages is to issue to the person making the request, a certified copy of that portion of the registration of the birth of a child whose parentage was transferred by a parentage order that does not refer to the child’s birth parents or the change of parentage.

        (2)         A certified copy of a portion of the registration of a child’s birth that the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages issues under subsection (1) is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of the facts recorded on the document.



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