REPUBLIC OF NAURU

(Act No.11 of 2009)

AN ACT

To amend the Births, Deaths and Marriages Ordinance 1957-1967

(Certified: 15 October 2009)

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REPUBLIC OF NAURU

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

(No.11 of 2009)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. Short Title and Communication
2. Principal Act
3. Amendment of section 5 of the principal Act

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An Act

(No.11 of 2009)

To amend the Births, Deaths and Marriages Ordinance 1957-1967

(Certified: 15 October 2009)

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:

Short Title and Commencement

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Act 2009.

(2) This Act shall come into force on the date on which it receives the certificate of the Speaker.

Principal Act

2. (1)The Births, Deaths and Marriages Ordinance 1957-1967 is the principal Act.

(2) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1957-2009.

Amendment of section 5 of the principal Act

3. Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by deleting from subsection (2) the words ‘The Official Secretary to the Administration shall be ex officio’ and replacing them with the words ‘The President shall appoint a public officer to be’.

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of a Bill for an Act entitled Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Act 2009 that has been passed by the Parliament of Nauru and is now presented to the Speaker for his certificate under Article 47 of the Constitution.	Pursuant to Article 47 of the Constitution, I, Riddel Akua, Speaker of Parliament, hereby certify that the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Act 2009 has been passed by the Parliament of Nauru

Clerk of Parliament
15 October 2009	
Speaker of Parliament
15 October 2009