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.

  Section 62F: inserted, on 26 April 2005, by section 39 of the Civil Union Act 2004 (2004 No 102).