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South Australia
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration
of Still-Births) Amendment Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Births,
Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Births, Deaths and
Marriages Registration Act 1996
3Insertion of Part
3A
Part 3A—Optional registration of birth of
certain still-born children of between 12 and 19 weeks'
gestation
17AApplication of
Part
17BRegistration of birth of
still-born child of between 12 and 19 weeks'
gestation
17CPart 7 to apply in relation to register under
this Part
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
(Registration of Still-Births) Amendment Act 2012.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Act 1996
After Part 3 insert:
Part 3A—Optional registration of birth of certain
still-born children of between 12 and 19 weeks'
gestation
17A—Application of Part
This Part applies to the birth, on or after 1 January 2002, of a
child of between 12 and 19 weeks' gestation (inclusive) 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.
17B—Registration of birth of still-born child of
between 12 and 19 weeks' gestation
(1) A parent of a
still-born child to which this Part applies may apply, in a form approved by the
Registrar, to the Registrar to have the birth registered under this
Act.
(2) Following receipt of an application under
subsection (1),
the Registrar must register the birth of the child.
(3) The Registrar registers a birth of a child to which this Part applies
by making an entry about the birth in the Register including such particulars as
the Registrar thinks fit.
(4) The register required to be kept under this Part may be kept as part
of the Register.
17C—Part 7 to apply in relation to register
under this Part
The provisions of Part 7 (other than Division 1) apply to the
birth of a child to which this Part applies that is the subject of an
application under
section 17B as if the
birth were a registrable event.