Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 - SECT 11

  (1)   An application under subsection   10(1) or (2) for the registration of the death of a person:

  (a)   shall be in accordance with a prescribed form;

  (b)   shall be made in a prescribed manner;

  (c)   shall specify the name of, and set out any particulars necessary to identify, the person;

  (d)   shall set out the grounds on which the applicant knows the identity of the person;

  (e)   in the case of an application under subsection   10(1), shall set out such particulars of the time, date and cause of the death as are known to the applicant;

  (f)   in the case of an application under subsection   10(1) for the registration of a death that the applicant has reason to believe was the death of a prescribed person, shall:

  (i)   set out the grounds on which the applicant has reason to believe that the person was a prescribed person; and

  (ii)   specify the place at which the person died;

  (g)   in the case of an application under subsection   10(1) for the registration of a death that the applicant has reason to believe took place on board a flying craft or a ship (whether or not it was the death of a prescribed person), shall:

  (i)   set out particulars of the flying craft or ship on board which the person died;

  (ii)   specify the location of that flying craft or ship at the time when the person died; and

  (iii)   except in the case of an Australian aircraft or an Australian ship, set out particulars of the flight or voyage being made by that flying craft or ship at the time when the person died;

  (h)   in the case of an application under subsection   10(2), shall:

  (i)   set out such particulars of the time at which, the date on which, and the circumstances in which, the person disappeared as are known to the applicant;

  (ii)   set out particulars of the flying craft or ship from which the person disappeared;

  (iii)   specify the location of that flying craft or ship at the time when that person disappeared;

  (iv)   except in the case of an Australian aircraft or an Australian ship, set out particulars of the flight or voyage being made by that flying craft or ship at the time when the person disappeared; and

  (v)   set out particulars of the grounds for believing that the person has died;

  (j)   where the person resided in a State or Territory at any time and the applicant knows an address, or addresses, at which the person resided in a State or Territory, shall specify that address or those addresses and set out such particulars of the period or periods at which the person resided at that address or each of those addresses as are known to the applicant;

  (k)   shall set out particulars of any other application for the registration of the death under this Act that are known to the applicant; and

  (m)   shall set out such other prescribed particulars (if any) as are known to the applicant.

  (2)   Without limiting the generality of paragraph   (1)(m), regulations made for the purposes of that paragraph that prescribe particulars to be included in applications under subsection   10(1) or (2) may prescribe particulars for inclusion only in specified classes of applications or may prescribe different particulars for inclusion in different classes of applications.

  (3)   A person who makes an application referred to in subsection   (1) shall certify, in writing, at the foot of the application the correctness of the particulars included in the application.