Fees

These fees are updated every financial year.

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The following fees are effective 1 July 2024.

All prices shown below include GST (if payable and where applicable).

Additional fees apply for postage (see below).

Payment methods

BDM accepts:

  • Credit or debit card (No AMEX or Diners Club)
  • BPAY
  • Bank cheque
  • Money order
  • Personal cheques

BDM does not accept:

  • Cash
  • International bank cheques

Make bank cheques and money orders payable to "Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages".

Products, fees, and notes about fees
ProductDescription and notesPrice
Legal certificateFee for a legal birth, death, marriage, change of name or single status certificate.$55.80
Birth certificate and commemorative certificate

Includes:

  • 1 legal birth certificate, and
  • 1 (or more) commemorative design certificate
From $90.70
Deed Poll certificate

If you changed your name after October 1986, do not apply for a Deed Poll certificate.

Instead, you need to apply for either a legal birth certificate (if born in Victoria) or a replacement change of name certificate (if born outside Victoria).

$55.80
Change of name registration
  • Includes legal certificate fee of $55.80.
  • Change of name registration fee of $84.60 is non-refundable.
$140.40
Relationship registration

This fee:

  • Is non-refundable
  • Doesn't include a certificate.

A legal certificate is available for $55.80.

$251.50
Registered relationship certificate and commemorative certificate

Includes:

  • 1 legal relationship certificate, and
  • 1 (or more) commemorative design certificate
From $90.70
Revocation of a relationship

This fee:

  • Is non-refundable
  • Doesn't include a certificate.

A legal certificate is available for $55.80.

$84.60
Alteration of record of sex in the Victorian birth register
  • Includes legal certificate fee of $55.80.
  • Alteration of sex registration fee of $84.60 is non-refundable.
$140.40
Recognised details certificateFee for the certificate and registration of a non-Victorian born person's change of record of sex.$122.00
Addition of registrable informationFee to add information to a Victorian birth record (e.g. father's details or same-sex parent's details).$84.60
Copy of the original registration document-$102.70
Verification letterA letter verifying the details of a birth, death or marriage. BDM may issue this letter where the applicant can't show eligibility for the legal certificate. The applicant must provide a legitimate need for the information.$46.20

Read about refunds and fee waiver.

Postage

We send legal certificates by express post, for security.

For commemorative certificates, the delivery method is standard post. This is because they're not official identity documents. Legal and commemorative certificates will arrive separately.

Postage within Australia

Postage methods and prices, within Australia
Type of certificatePostage and handling methodPrice
Legal certificateExpress post$10.20

Postage outside Australia

Postage methods and prices, outside Australia
Type of certificatePostage and handling methodPrice
Legal certificateInternational express$55.50

Go to Australia Post(opens in a new window) for product details.

Victorian Marriage Registry

Civil marriage ceremonies at Melbourne's Old Treasury Building.

See Wedding ceremony fees

Family history products and services

Family history products, fees, and notes about fees
ProductDescription and notesPrice
Historical certificateFee for an historical birth, marriage or death certificate.$55.80
Uncertified historical image

Fee for an uncertified image of an historical birth, marriage or death certificate.

Note:

  • The information on an uncertified image is identical to the information on an historical certificate for the same event.
  • You can't use an uncertified image for official purposes.
$22.50

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