New Zealand Legislation: Acts

48 Time within which death to be notified

• (1) A person required by section 42(1) to notify a death shall do so within 3 working days after the disposal of the body concerned.

  (2) A coroner required by section 44 to notify a death shall do so within 3 working days of the completion of the inquiry concerned.

  (3) If the Registrar-General is satisfied that—

  • (a) any death in New Zealand has not previously been registered; or

  • (b) the death of a person ordinarily resident in New Zealand occurred in a place outside New Zealand where—

    • (i) there was no system for recording information relating to deaths; or

    • (ii) the system for recording information relating to deaths did not apply to the person,—

  the death may be notified at any time; but (without limiting the generality of section 82) the Registrar-General may decline to allow information relating to it to be recorded if not satisfied that its registration is appropriate.

  Section 48(2): amended, on 1 July 2007, by section 146 of the Coroners Act 2006 (2006 No 38).