Support Resources
Correct or Amend a Birth Certificate
Each state across Australia differs in their processes as to how to correct or amend a birth certificate. Once a legal DNA test has been completed, please reach out to your following state in the links provided below to guide you through the process on how to make a change.
Western Australia
Find information on how to correct or amend a birth, death or marriage certificate.
Phone: 1300 305 021
Email: bdm@justice.wa.gov.au
New South Wales
Change the details on a birth, death or marriage record.
Change the details on a birth, death or marriage record | Service NSW
Phone: 13 77 88
South Australia
Change the details on a birth, death or marriage record.
SA.GOV.AU - Corrections to certificates (www.sa.gov.au)
Phone: 13 18 82
Victoria
Correct a birth certificate.
Correct a birth certificate | Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria (bdm.vic.gov.au)
Phone: 1300 369 367
Queensland
Correct a certificate | Your rights, crime and the law | Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au)
Phone: 13 74 68
Northern Territory
A copy of DNA testing from all parties and a removal of father form plus an add father from for the biological father and all ID’s from all parties, plus a statutory declaration stating why the incorrect father was listed on the birth registration statement is required.
There is correction fee of $49.00 and a new certificate fee $49.00 required.
If any certificates have been issued they will need to be returned to the Births, Deaths and Marriages office before a new certificate can be released.
Application for birth, death or marriage certificate Northern Territory
Adding Father’s Details by Both Parents Birth Registered in the Northern Territory
Phone: (08) 8999 6119
