Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 - SECT 8

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (2), the following deaths may be registered under this Act:

  (a)   the deaths of prescribed persons who have died otherwise than in a State or Territory;

  (b)   the deaths of persons who have died on board Australian aircraft;

  (c)   the deaths of persons who have died on board Australian ships;

  (d)   the deaths of persons who have died on board flying craft (other than Australian aircraft) on Australian flights;

  (e)   the deaths of persons who have died on board ships (other than Australian ships) on Australian voyages;

whether the deaths took place before or after the commencement of this Act.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not authorize the registration under this Act of:

  (a)   the death of a person whose identity is unknown;

  (b)   a death that may be registered under the law of a State or Territory, unless the State or Territory registrar for that State or Territory has notified the Registrar in writing that the State or Territory registrar will not register the death; or

  (c)   the death of a person, other than a prescribed person, who died on board a flying craft, other than an Australian aircraft, or a ship, other than an Australian ship, and whose death may be registered under the law of a foreign country or of a part of a foreign country.

  (3)   Subject to paragraph   (2)(c), a death may be registered under this Act notwithstanding that the death has been, or may be, registered under the law of a foreign country or of a part of a foreign country.