If a baby isn't named within a certain period of time, can the ACT Government name a child?
ABCIt's not uncommon for parents to take some time to settle on a name for a new baby, but if they take too long, does the government have the power to step in? Access Canberra is the government body responsible for recording the momentous occasions in the ACT Helping to answer Sam's question is Ben Green, deputy director of licensing and registration with Access Canberra. Bringing it back to Sam's question, I asked whether the government could name a child, if parents didn't meet the deadline. "The government does have two circumstances in which they can name your child, the first circumstance is if it's a prohibited name and the second is if the parents can't agree on a name." Ben said that this had never happened in the ACT and there was no pre-approved list of spare baby names sitting on a desk at Access Canberra just in case.
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