New Zealand Legislation: Acts

59 Dissolutions to be recorded

• (1) Upon the making of—

  • (a) an order dissolving a marriage; or

  • (b) an order declaring that a party to a marriage is presumed to be dead and that the marriage is dissolved; or

  • (c) an order declaring a marriage to be void ab initio,—

  under the Family Proceedings Act 1980, the Registrar of the Family Court concerned shall forthwith send to the Registrar-General a certificate of the order; and the Registrar-General shall record the information it contains as part of the information recorded under this Act or a former Act relating to the marriage.

  (2) The Registrar-General may record, as part of the information recorded under this Act or a former Act relating to a marriage, any information contained in—

  • (a) any order described in subsection (1); or

  • (b) any equivalent order or decree made under a former divorce enactment (that is to say an Act repealed by the Family Proceedings Act 1980 or by a former divorce enactment).

  Compare: 1955 No 92 ss 53, 55

  Section 59(1): amended, on 24 January 2009, by section 46 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).