New Zealand Legislation: Acts

46 Other person may be authorised to notify

• (1) Where—

  • (a) a person required by any of sections 42 to 45 to notify a death has signed and given to some other person written authority to notify it; or

  • (b) every person required by any of sections 42 to 45 to notify a death has failed or refused to do so, and the Registrar-General has authorised some other person to notify it,—

  the other person may do so.

  (2) Except as provided in subsection (1), a person not required by any of sections 42 to 45 to notify a death shall not notify it, and is not capable of notifying it.

  (3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where any person required by any of sections 42 to 45 to notify a death authorises any other person to notify it, the requirement is not discharged until the other person duly notifies it.

  Compare: 1951 No 22 s 33