9A. Name of child
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The name of a child to be entered in a register of births in respect of the registration of the child’s birth and, where the child’s name in the register is to be altered, the child’s altered name to be entered in the register —
register
“register” includes all register books in existence on 1 July 1938 as well as any registers provided under section 5;
must be in a form expressed in characters in the modern English alphabet;
may include a permitted character; and
must not exceed the number of characters permitted in the electronic form of the register for the entry of a name.
In subsection (1)(b), “permitted character” means a character that the Registrar‑General, by notification in the Gazette, specifies.