Registry records are historic documents and can usually only be amended to reflect information that was correct at the time of the event. Names or addresses of parents, their ages, occupations or places of birth or marriage will not be updated to reflect more recent circumstances.

Application Form

To correct a certificate, please complete the:

• Correct an Entry form
  (not for changing a child's name or to add or remove father's details)

Additionally, you must supply supporting documents if a certificate contains an error you wish to have corrected. Photocopies of any documents confirming the correct information may include;

• certified copies of passports
• migration documents
• birth or marriage certificates of the parents
• other documentation confirming the spelling of names, and the correct date of events.

All documents except foreign passports must be current.
Photocopies must be must be certified as true copies of the original by a qualified witness* (e.g. Justice of the Peace; notary public; legal practitioner with current practising certificate; person authorised to administer an oath under S.26 of the Oaths Act 1900).

All certificates with incorrect information must be surrendered to us.

Cost

Delivery

• Turnaround times (see Registration, Amendments)

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