Hon Rick Barker
Government Bill
98—1
Explanatory note
1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Principal Act amended
Part 1Amendments to principal Act
4 Title repealed
5 Name of principal Act changed
6 New section 1A inserted
1A Purpose
7 Interpretation
8 New section 4 substituted
4 No information to be recorded or altered except in accordance with Act
9 New section inserted
5A Preliminary notice of birth
10 New sections 9 and 10 substituted
9 Parents primarily responsible for notifying birth
10 Guardian or authorised person may notify birth
11 New sections 15 and 15A substituted
15 Registration of parents' details
15A Appeals relating to registration of parents' details
12 Names to be specified when birth notified
13 New sections 21 and 21A substituted
21 Application for registration of name change
21A Registration of name change
14 Registration of New Zealand adoptions
15 Declarations of Family Court as to sex to be shown on birth certificates issued for adults
16 Declarations of Family Court as to appropriate gender identity for children
17 Sections 37 to 41 repealed
18 Deposit with Registrar-General of death certificates issued outside New Zealand
19 New section 62 substituted
62 Recording new names in relation to marriages
20 New section 62G substituted
62G Recording new names in relation to civil unions
21 Birth certificates for adopted persons
22 New section 65 substituted
65 Request for new identity information for certain witnesses, etc
23 Birth certificates generally
24 New section 70B inserted
70B Name change certificates
25 Heading to Part 9 substituted
26 New sections 73 to 75 substituted
73 Access to birth information, death information, marriage information, civil union information, and name change information
74 Persons authorised to obtain registered information
74A Persons authorised to access source documents
75 Searches for purposes of gathering of statistics, or for health, historical, or demographic research
27 Restrictions on searches relating to adopted persons
28 Restrictions on searches relating to new names of certain witnesses, etc
29 Disclosure of birth information, death information, marriage information, and civil union information to certain specified agencies for certain purposes
30 New sections 78B to 78G inserted
78B Information matching to trace unregistered births
78C Disclosure of statistical information
78D Registrar-General may share name change information and death information with foreign registration authorities
78E Disclosure of death information to non-government organisations for certain purposes
78F Registrar-General may make certain historical information available on website
78G Index information must not be made available on Internet
31 Registrars
32 Heading to Part 11 substituted
33 New sections 82 to 84A substituted
82 Registrar-General's powers of inquiry
83 Registrars must decline to record certain information
84 Correction of errors
84A Amendments to birth registrations to include details of parents under Part 2 of Status of Children Act 1969
34 Family Court may consider proposed corrections in cases of difficulty or dispute
35 New sections 85A and 85B inserted
85A Health information may be used to correct records
85B Information recorded under Act may be used to update information kept under Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004
36 New Part 11A heading inserted
37 New sections 87A and 87B inserted
87A Provision of information to Statistics New Zealand
87B Registrar-General may issue standard forms
38 Offences and penalties
39 New section 89A inserted
89A Electronic transactions
40 Fees
41 New section 91A inserted
91A No liability for costs incurred in supplying information
42 Transitional provision
43 New Schedule 1A substituted
44 Consequential amendments to principal Act
Part 2Amendments to other enactments
45 Amendments to other Acts
46 Amendments to Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Prescribed Information and Forms) Regulations 1995
47 Amendments to other regulations
Schedule 1New Schedule 1A substituted in principal Act
Schedule 2Consequential amendments to principal Act
Schedule 3Amendments to other Acts
Schedule 4Amendments to Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Prescribed Information and Forms) Regulations 1995 (1995 No 183)
Schedule 5Amendments to other regulations
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: