New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) The following persons may inspect or obtain a copy of a source document:
(a) the person who is the subject of the birth information, marriage information, civil union information, or name change information contained in the source document or that person's personal representative:
(b) a person who satisfies the Registrar-General that access is required for the maintenance of the accuracy of the registered information:
(c) a person who satisfies the Registrar-General that access is required for a purpose consistent with the purpose of recording information under this Act that cannot be met by obtaining a certificate or print-out.
(2) However, a person described in subsection (1)(a) may not inspect or obtain a copy of information from a register, or an index to a register, that is regarded by the Registrar-General as a source document because it is maintained in documentary form and was created before 1 January 1998.
Section 75: substituted, on 24 January 2009, by section 27 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Subsection (1)(c) was amended, as from 26 April 2005, by section 46 Civil Union Act 2004 (2004 No 102) by substituting the words “marriage, or civil union”
for the words “or marriage”
.