VPRS 10261 Birth Information Forms (RETURNED TO AGENCY 2014)

This series consists of bound volumes and thermal bound folders containing birth information forms for the registration of births. The forms are required to be filled in for registration of births in accordance with the provisions of the Registration of Births, Deaths & Marriages Act 1959 (No.6564).The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1959 provided for the registration of births to be effected by post instead of personally by attendance before a Registrar. The system of registration was re-organised and centralised and a combined system of registration of births in the metropolitan and country areas started from 1 October 1960.Since the central agency responsible for administering the Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1959 is required to procure information of all the metropolitan and country births in the prescribed form, a separate sequence of birth information forms were created and registered with an annual single number by date of receipt which corresponds to the birth registration numbers entered in the relevant Birth Registers.The records are statutory declarations by informants verifying the statements made. Information from these records is then transferred to the formal Birth Registers.The P1 consignment consists of bound volumes containing birth information forms for the period Oct 1960 to 1984. Even though the forms are still being created and maintained separately from the corresponding Birth Registers, they are no longer bound in volumes. From 1984 they were kept in thermal bound folders.These forms provide the following details:- date of receipt- registration number- details about the child which include, date of birth, name, surname, sex, place of birth, living or stillborn- details about parents (name, age, address, marriage details and occupation)- names of witnesses.Prior to 1971 particulars prescribed by the Schedule were supplied on three different types of forms which included:- birth information forms in general (white) (Eighth Schedule)- for illegitimate births (blue) (Tenth Schedule)- late registration forms (pink) (Ninth Schedule)The numbers of the volumes at the series level and the registration numbers at the contents level are the same as the corresponding Birth Register number and the birth registration numbers entered in the relevant Birth Registers created for registering the births in Victoria. (The corresponding Birth Registers are in the custody of Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages as at May 1990.)This series can be accessed via the alphabetical name index created to provide access to the Birth Registers. The index from 1960 onwards is held by the Registry.These records have been accorded a permanent status in accordance with the provisions of section 26 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1959 (No.6564).

本系列藏品包含精装合订本及热压装订文件夹（thermal bound folders），内载用于出生登记的出生信息登记表。根据《1959年出生、死亡及婚姻登记法》（Registration of Births, Deaths & Marriages Act 1959，第6564号）的规定，办理出生登记时须填写此类表格。
该法案允许通过邮寄方式完成出生登记，无需本人亲自前往登记官处办理。此后登记系统历经重组与集中化改革，都会及乡村区域的出生联合登记制度于1960年10月1日起正式施行。
由于负责执行《1959年出生、死亡及婚姻登记法》的中央主管机构须以规定格式收集所有都会及乡村区域的出生信息，故另行编制了系列出生信息登记表，并按接收日期以年度单一编号进行登记，该编号与相关出生登记簿中录入的出生登记编号一一对应。上述记录由申报人出具法定声明，以证实所填报内容的真实性。相关信息随后将被转至正式的出生登记簿中。
P1批次包含1960年10月至1984年期间的出生信息登记表精装合订本。尽管此类表格仍与对应的出生登记簿分开编制与维护，但自1984年起不再以合订本形式装订，而是采用热压装订文件夹收纳。
此类登记表包含以下详细信息：
- 接收日期
- 登记编号
- 子女相关信息，包括出生日期、姓名、姓氏、性别、出生地点、存活或死产情况
- 父母相关信息，包括姓名、年龄、住址、婚姻状况及职业
- 证人姓名
1971年之前，按附表规定填报的信息需使用三种不同格式的表格，具体包括：
- 通用出生信息登记表（白色，第八附表）
- 非婚生出生登记表（蓝色，第十附表）
- 迟登记录表格（粉色，第九附表）
本系列合订本的编号以及内容层级的登记编号，与为维多利亚州出生登记而编制的对应出生登记簿编号，以及相关出生登记簿中录入的出生登记编号完全一致。（截至1990年5月，上述对应出生登记簿由出生、死亡及婚姻登记处保管。）
本系列可通过为检索出生登记簿而编制的按姓名排序的索引进行查阅。1960年起的索引现由该登记处保管。
根据《1959年出生、死亡及婚姻登记法》（Registration of Births, Deaths & Marriages Act 1959，第6564号）第26条的规定，此类记录已被列为永久保存档案。