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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 61
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61  At the end of section 53
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 (4) The Minister may refuse any name or signature of the person that the Minister considers to be unacceptable, inappropriate or offensive.
 (5) Unless subsection (4) or a circumstance specified in a Minister's determination applies, the name must be the most recent name:
 (a) on the person's birth certificate; or
 (b) on a notice given to the person under section 37 of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007; or
 (c) on a certificate, entry or record of the person's marriage, being a certificate granted or entry or record made by the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages (however described) of a State or Territory; or
 (d) on a certificate, entry or record relating to the registration of the person's relationship with another person, being a certificate, entry or record:
 (i) issued or made under, or for the purposes of, a law of a State or Territory prescribed for the purposes of section 2E of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901; and
 (ii) relating to a kind of relationship prescribed for the purposes of that section; and
 (iii) issued or made by the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages (however described) of the State or Territory concerned; or
 (e) included, by way of effecting a name change of the person, on a register kept under a law of a State or Territory by the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages (however described) of the State or Territory.
 (6) However, a person may only rely on a certificate, entry or record mentioned in paragraph (5)(c) or (d) for the person's surname, unless a register mentioned in paragraph (5)(e) shows that the person's surname has subsequently changed.

Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005