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Death Certificate
Verify an Australian death certificate against the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in the state or territory that registered it. Submit the registration details alongside the deceased person’s name and the date of the event. This check is typically used in estate, probate, and beneficiary workflows.

Reading the result

Check data.isValid to determine whether the submitted details match the issuing agency’s records. A no-match still returns HTTP 200 with success: true — see Introduction to Australia DVS for how to interpret verificationStatus.

Sandbox test data

Death Certificate sandbox payloads

Copy-paste payloads for every outcome.

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Use your API token as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.

Headers

Authorization
string
required
Example:

"Bearer {your_api_token}"

Accept
string
default:application/json
Content-Type
string
default:application/json

Body

application/json
dateOfEvent
string
required

Date of death in DD-MM-YYYY format.

Example:

"15-03-1990"

registrationNumber
string
required

Death registration number.

registrationState
string
required

State that registered the death.

Example:

"NSW"

registrationDate
string
required

Date the death was registered in DD-MM-YYYY format.

Example:

"15-06-2020"

certificateNumber
string
required

Certificate number.

familyName
string

Family name on the certificate.

givenName
string

Given name(s) on the certificate.

metadata
object

Optional key-value pairs echoed back in the response.

Response

Request processed. Check data.isValid and verificationStatus to determine the outcome.

success
boolean
required
message
string
required
data
object
required
verificationStatus
enum<string>
required
Available options:
VERIFIED,
REJECTED
verificationStatusCode
integer
required

3 = Verified, 1 = Rejected.

transactionId
string<uuid>
required
verificationType
string
required
Example:

"australia_death_certificate"

createdAt
string
required
metadata
object | null