Part 4: Registers of births and deaths Section 63: Requirements to sign register
Section 63 makes further amendments to the BDRA 1953.
	Subsection (2) inserts a new section 38B into the BDRA 1953 (Requirements to sign register) which empowers the Minister to make regulations that provide for the following, in relation to registers of births or deaths that are not kept in paper form:
That a duty to sign a birth or death register at the time of registration is to have effect as a duty to comply with specified requirements; and
That a person who complies with specified requirements is to be treated as having signed the register at that time and to have done so in the presence of a registrar, and the entry in the register will be treated as having been signed by the person.
	Under new section 38B(2) BDRA 1953, the provision that may be made by regulations under subsection (1) includes:
Provision requiring a person to sign something other than the register;
Provision requiring the person to provide evidence of identity, specified in regulations, when registering a birth or death.
	New section 38B(3) BDRA 1953 clarifies that in this section "specified" means specified in regulations under this section.
	Subsection (3) of section 63 inserts a new subsection (6) into section 39A of the BDRA 1953 (regulations made by the Minister: further provisions) providing that regulations made by the Minister under section 38B may not be made unless they are laid before and approved by both Houses of Parliament (affirmative procedure).