New Zealand Legislation: Acts

75 Persons authorised to access source documents

• (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).