Births Deaths and Marriages TAS, Birth Registration Collection
TAS Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages – Birth Registration Statement supplied by the hospital and completed by parents and notification of the birth by the hospital, doctor or midwife attending the birth. For stillbirths a Medical Certificate of Cause of Perinatal Death is completed by the medical practitioner and forwarded either by the medical practitioner or the hospital.
The Birth Registry is administered under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 and the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Regulation 2000 by the TAS Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Registration of births is compulsory in Australia.
The Register includes all births that occur in TAS including stillbirths.
Although stillbirths are registered as a birth, for reporting purposes these are accounted for in ABS perinatal death statistics published in Causes of Death, Australia and previously, in Perinatal Deaths, Australia.
Parents are required to register a birth within 60 days. The TAS Register of Births Deaths and Marriages does not produce its own reports but provides data electronically to the ABS on a monthly basis for compilation into aggregate statistics on a quarterly and annual basis.
Data can be requested from the TAS Registrar for Births, Deaths and Marriages. Aggregate birth data can be accessed from the ABS website in both report format and in data cubes. The latest publication is Births, Australia, 2012 available from the ABS website.