New Zealand Legislation: Acts

10 Order dispensing with prohibition on civil union within prohibited degrees of affinity

• (1) Two people who are within the prohibited degrees of affinity, but who are not within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity, may apply to the Family Court for an order under this section.

  (2) On an application under subsection (1), the court may make an order dispensing with the prohibition in section 9.

  (3) The Registrar of any court where an order under this section is made must send a copy of the order to the Registrar-General.

  Compare: 1955 No 92 s 15(2), (3)