[LINK] Centrelink computers to keep tabs on the dead and flying

[Adam Todd]

At 12:39 PM 9/05/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>>...but who or what agency is being arranged as the prime capture 
>>>agency.  It strikes me they may have to recruit hospitals, 
>>>doctors, funeral directors, etc.
>>Wouldn't you just get the data from Births Deaths and Marriages?
>>After all, when a person is born or dies (at least in a Hospital or 
>>in the presence of a medical practitioner) the practitioner has a 
>>reporting obligation to BDM.
>
>At a birth the attending practitioner has a duty to check that the 
>birth has been registered, but it's the parents who are responsible 
>to register the birth.

No the practitioner isn't responsible for the registration.  They 
only submit a Notice of Birth.  It identifies the date, time and 
place of the birth and the mothers name and address. (Plus baby's 
weight and length.)  That is all.

The Parents submit the Registration.