Current Processing Times:
Routine birth, death and marriage certificate applications may take up to 4 weeks. Urgent applications are currently taking 5 working days to process.

New registrations are taking (birth 7 weeks, marriage 10 weeks & Change of Name applications 4 weeks) to process, including the issue of your certificates.

The Registry apologises for any inconvenience.

This application can only be used to correct the given name/s of a child under three months old, whose birth is registered in NSW.

• Who Can Apply
• Proof of Identification
• Cost
• Commemorative Birth Certificates
• Delivery
• Application Form

Who Can Apply

Only the parent/s of the child may apply to amend the given name of a child. The child must be under three months old at the time of the application.

Consent of both parents (recorded on the child's Birth Certificate) is required to amend a child's given name. If the details of a father are not shown on the Birth Certificate, only the mother's consent is required.

Proof of Identification

Each parent must provide at least three (3) individual forms of identification from the list below and at least one form of their child's identification.

Child's Identification

Parents must provide at least one (1) form of their child's identification from this list. The identification must include the correct spelling of the child's name.

• Baptismal Certificate
• Bank book or Statement Account
• Child's passport
• Medicare Card
• Family payment letter/advice
• Letter from child's medical practitioner confirming correct name

If you have a Birth Certificate for your child, please attach it with your application.

Identification List

Each parent must provide at least three (3) individual forms of identification from the list below with their application.

• At least one (1) form of identification must be provided form List 1 and must contain your full name, date of birth and place of birth.
• The other forms of identification (at least two) must be provided from List 2 and List 3.
• If you are unable to provide identification form List 2, you must provide at least two (2) forms of identification from List 3.
  

(Please note that a Visa Endorsement in your passport is insufficient to confirm Permanent Resident Status).

Photocopies of current identification documents are accepted but they must be certified by a Qualified Witness as being 'true and correct copies' of the originals.

A Qualified Witnesses is a:

• Justice of the Peace
• Notary Public
• Barrister/Solicitor
• Commissioner for Affidavits
• Officers at the NSW Registry of Birth Deaths & Marriages

The Qualified Witness must provide their name, address and daytime telephone number on the Statutory Declaration.

The Registry will not accept faxed applications or faxed identification documents.

Cost

*All certificates and Birth Cards are distributed through registered post (except Family History) and incur a $5.00 (inc. GST) postage and handling fee. Prices listed are inclusive of the postage and handling fee. Registered post does not ensure next day delivery.

Please note there is no cost to amend the given name of a child under 3 months old. However, you will need to purchase a Birth Certificate for your child.

Along with an official Standard Birth Certificate, the Registry also offers a range of Commemorative Birth Certificates. All Commemorative Birth Certificate packages include a Standard Birth Certificate.

NEW Commemorative Birth Certificate

The Registry has now launched a new range of Birth Commemorative Certificates.

• Available in eight unique designs;
• Printed on archival quality paper;
• Standard framing size of 210mm x 297mm (A4);
• Beautifully presented, wrapped in acid-free tissue paper and packaged in a gold cylinder.
• The Commemorative Certificate is only issued for commemorative purposes and is not intended for official use.

Designs

Click on the thumbnails below to view design samples of the Commemorative Certificate designs.

           
Booties          Feet              Gum Blossom

           
Blue              Pink               Harbour

           
Nursery          Standard               

Please note that the Feet design is also avaialble displaying no parent details which includes the childs name, place of birth, date of birth and sex.

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Delivery

• Urgent applications lodged in person at the Registry office are ready for collection after 24 hours.
• Urgent mail applications will be sent by secure post the next working day after they are received and will incur a postage and handling fee.
• Non-urgent mail applications are sent by secure post five (5) working days after they are received and incur a postage and handling fee.
• Non-urgent applications lodged in person at the Registry office are ready for collection in five (5) working days.

The times stated above begin from the receipt of the application at the Registry until the certificate leaves the Registry's premises. If your application is incomplete, the times stated do not begin until your application complies with the Registry's requirements.

Application Form

Your Amending the Given Name of a Child application must include:

• Statutory Declaration form and,
• Payment Details form and,
• At least three forms of your identification and
• At least one form of your child's identification

Please select your preferred format for viewing the required Payment Details Forms and Statutory Declaration.

Payment Details Form                                 PDF*

Statutory Declaration                                   PDF*

Identification must be included with your application.

The certificate application form can be completed on your computer, printed and then mailed to the Registry.

Please note that you are unable to submit your application online and the Registry will not accept faxed application forms or faxed identification documents.

NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages
GPO Box 30
SYDNEY NSW 2001

*You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the PDF files. You can download Acrobat from the Internet.

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