Title: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths)Amendment Bill 2008
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: ha123

House of Assembly—No 123
As laid on the table and read a first time, 10 April 2008

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths) Amendment Bill 2008

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths) Amendment Bill 2008
Part 1—Preliminary

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths) Amendment Bill 2008
Preliminary—Part 1

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths) Amendment Bill 2008
Part 2—Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths) Amendment Bill 2008
Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996—Part 2

South Australia
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths) Amendment Bill 2008
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996
4	Amendment of section 39—Registration

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Registration of Deaths) Amendment Act 2008.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation 1 month after assent.
3—Amendment provisions
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
4—Amendment of section 39—Registration
Section 39—after subsection (2) insert:
	(3)	For the purposes of this section (but without limiting subsection (2)), a requirement to include particulars about any person to whom the deceased person was married will be taken to include particulars about a person who was living in a de facto relationship with the deceased person at the time of death.
	(4)	In subsection (3)—
de facto relationship, in relation to a deceased person, means the relationship between a man and a woman, who although not legally married to each other, were living together on a genuine domestic basis as husband and wife on the date of the person's death and—
	(a)	who—
	(i)	had so lived continuously for the period of 3 years immediately preceding that date; or
	(ii)	had during the period of 4 years immediately preceding that date so lived for periods aggregating not less than 3 years; or
	(b)	a child, of whom the man and the woman are the parents, has been born (whether or not the child is still living at that date).

HA GP 187-B: the Hon Iain Evans MP