New Zealand Legislation: Acts

62F Convictions for bigamy to be recorded

• (1) When a person who is a party to a civil union is convicted of bigamy, the Registrar of the Court concerned must immediately send to the Registrar-General a certificate of the conviction specifying—

  • (a) the names of the parties to the bigamous marriage or civil union; and

  • (b) the date and place of the bigamous marriage or civil union; and

  • (c) the date of the conviction.

  (2) If the information relating to a bigamous marriage or civil union is recorded under this Act, the Registrar-General must record the information received under subsection (1) as part of that information.

  Part 7A (comprising sections 62A to 62G) was inserted, as from 26 April 2005, by section 38(3) Civil Union Act 2004 (2004 No 102).