Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996

In this Act—

adult means a person who is 18 or above or, although under 18, is or has been married;

authorised celebrant means an authorised celebrant under the Marriage

Act 1961 (Cwth);

birth means the expulsion or extraction of a child from its mother;

change of name includes an addition, omission or substitution;

child includes a still-born child;

corresponding law means a law of another State that provides for the registration of births, deaths and marriages;

Court means the Magistrates Court;

cremated remains has the same meaning as in the

Burial and Cremation

Act 2013;

death includes still-birth;

disposal of human remains means—

doctor means a person registered under the

Health Practitioner Regulation National

Law to practise in the medical profession (other than as a student);

donor means a person who provided human reproductive material for the purposes of an insemination procedure (whether assisted reproductive treatment, within the meaning of the

Assisted Reproductive Treatment

Act 1988, or any other form of artificial fertilisation procedure) on the understanding that they would not be a parent or legal guardian of a child born as a consequence of the procedure;

donor conception means conception of a child by an insemination procedure (whether assisted reproductive treatment, within the meaning of the Assisted Reproductive

Treatment Act 1988, or any other form of artificial fertilisation procedure) using human reproductive material provided by a donor;

funeral director means a person who carries on the business of arranging for the disposal of human remains;

human remains includes the remains of a still-born child;

prohibited name means a name that—

registrable event means a birth, change of name, change of sex or gender identity, death or marriage and includes the making or revocation of a surrogacy order;

registrable information means information that must or may be included in the Register¹;

Register—See section 40;

registering authority means an authority responsible under a corresponding law for the registration of births, deaths and marriages;

Registrar means the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages;

State includes a Territory;

still-birth means the birth of a still-born child;

still-born child means a child of at least 20 weeks' gestation or, if it cannot be reliably established whether the period of gestation is more or less than 20 weeks, with a body mass of at least 400 grams at birth, that exhibits no sign of respiration or heartbeat, or other sign of life, after birth but does not include the product of a procedure for the termination of pregnancy;

surrogacy order means an order under section 18 or 19 of the Surrogacy Act 2019;

Tribunal means the South Australian Civil and

Administrative Tribunal established under the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Act 2013.

Note1 See section 40(2).