New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Any instrument of the kind described in subsection (2) of section 8 of this Act, or a duplicate or attested copy of any such instrument, may in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee (if any) be filed in the office of the Registrar-General, but it shall not be necessary to file any such instrument.
(2) The Registrar-General shall cause indexes of all instruments and duplicates and copies of instruments filed with him under subsection (1) of this section to be made and kept in his office, and shall, upon the request of any person and on payment of any prescribed fee or fees—
(a) Cause a search of any index to be made:
(b) Permit any such person to inspect any such instrument or any such duplicate or copy:
(c) Issue any such person with a certified copy of—
(i) Any such instrument; or
(ii) Any such duplicate or copy:
(d) Issue any such person with a certificate setting out the result of a search pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection.
(2A) [Repealed]
(3) If a Family Court or the High Court makes a declaration under section 10(2) or (3), or a Family Court makes a paternity order under the Family Proceedings Act 1980,—
(a) the Registrar of the Court must forward a copy of the declaration or order, as the case may require, to the Registrar-General for filing in his or her office under this section; and
(b) on receipt of any such copy, the Registrar-General must file it accordingly as if it were an instrument of the kind described in section 8(2).
(4) For the purposes of this section, Registrar-General has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995.
Subsection (2) was substituted, as from 13 December 1979, by section 3 Status of Children Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 112).
Subsection (2) was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 25(1) Official Information Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 8) by omitting the words “who, in the opinion of the Registrar-General, has a proper interest in the matter,”
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Subsection (2A) was inserted, as from 13 December 1979, by section 3 Status of Children Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 112).
Subsection (2A) was repealed, as from 1 April 1987, by section 25(1) Official Information Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 8).
Subsection (3) was amended, as from 1 October 1978, by section 4 Status of Children Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 8) by omitting the words “of paternity”
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The words “High Court”
and “District Court”
referred to in subsection (3) were substituted, as from 1 April 1980, for the words “Supreme Court”
and “Magistrate's Court”
, pursuant to section 12 Judicature Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 124) and section 18(2) District Courts Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 125).
Subsection (3) was substituted, as from 1 July 2005, by section 11 Status of Children Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 91).
Subsection (4) was substituted, as from 1 September 1995, by section 95 Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995 (1995 No 16).
Section 9(4): amended, on 24 January 2009, by section 47 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
