OCBA - Births deaths and marriages

Births deaths and marriages

The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office is responsible for maintaining registers of births, deaths, marriages, changes of name, adoption of children and reassignments of sex that occur in South Australia. We also issue certificates certifying entries in the registers and conduct civil marriage ceremonies.

The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office is only able to provide information by way of certificates and does so following receipt of a formal application. Online indexes for family history research are now available from the SA Genealogy Society.
http://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html

NEW LAWS TO RECOGNISE FEMALE SAME-SEX CO-PARENTS
In June 2011 South Australian laws were passed to recognise female, same-sex couples as the co-parents of babies. For births registered after 15 December 2011, the birth mother and co-parent can both be included on the birth registration and birth certificate in some cases. For births registered before 15 December 2011, the birth mother and co-parent can apply to change the birth record to add the female partner as a co-parent in some cases. For more information please call Births Deaths and Marriages on 13 1882.

Information sheet
Amending a birth record to add a co-parent (68 KB PDF file)
Registering a baby born to female same sex parents (69 KB PDF file)

CHINESE ADOPTEES LIVING IN SA TO BE ISSUED WITH BIRTH CERTIFICTAES
The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office (BDM) has recently revised its policy to allow children adopted from China to be issued birth certificates if the Registrar of BDM is provided with sufficient evidence of the adoption. For more information please call Births Deaths and Marriages on 13 1882.

Information Sheet
Registering the birth of a child born and adopted in China (72.9 KB PDF file)

Updates
For more information about Scam birth, death and marriage certificate websites, visit the SCAMwatch website
As of March 2011, priority service is available (processed within 24 hours) when applying for certificates online. To find out more, please click here

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Please note - not all services offered by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office are available at Regional Locations or at Service SA branches.

Please note - the current processing time for certificates is 15-20 days.

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