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Hon Rick Barker

Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Bill

Government Bill

98—2

As reported from the committee of the whole House

Contents

3 Principal Act amended

Part 1
Amendments to principal Act

4 Title repealed

5 Name of principal Act changed

6 New section 1A inserted

7 Interpretation

8 New section 4 substituted

4 No information to be recorded or altered except in accordance with Act

9 New section 5A 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 to 21B substituted

~~21 Application for registration of name change~~

~~21A Registration of name change~~

21 Definitions for sections 21A and 21B

21A Application for registration of name change

21B Registration of name change

14 Registration of New Zealand adoptions

14A New section 27A inserted

27A Definitions for sections 28 and 29

~~15 Declarations of Family Court as to sex to be shown on birth certificates issued for adults~~

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~~

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17 Sections 37 to 41 repealed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~~

26 New sections 73 to 75G substituted

73 Definitions for sections 74 to 75G

74 Access to birth information, death information, marriage information, civil union information, or name change information

75 Persons authorised to access source documents

75A Subject of birth information, marriage information, civil union information, or name change information may search access register and request non-disclosure direction

75B Effect and duration of non-disclosure direction

75C Registrar may provide limited verification of registered information that becomes publicly available while non-disclosure direction in force

75D Registrar-General must keep access register

75E Public sector agencies may search access register

75F Searches for certain authorised purposes

75G Searches for purposes of gathering statistics, or for health, historical, or demographic research

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 78H 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

78DA Supply of information to foreign registration authorities must be in accordance with written agreement

78E Disclosure of death information to non-government organisations for certain purposes

78EA Definition for sections 78F and 78G

78F Registrar-General may make certain historical information available

78G Index information must not be made available on Internet

78H Review of operation of sections 74 to 75G, 78E, and 78F

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

37A Regulations

38 Offences and penalties

39 New section 89A inserted

89A Electronic transactions

~~41 New section 91A inserted~~

~~91A No liability for costs incurred in supplying information~~

41 New sections 91A and 91B inserted

91A No liability for costs incurred in supplying information

91B Protection for supply of information

42 Transitional provision relating to applications under principal Act

42A Transitional provision relating to Human Tissue Act 2008

43 New Schedule 1A substituted

44 Consequential amendments to principal Act

Part 2
Amendments 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 1
New Schedule 1A substituted in principal Act

Schedule 2
Consequential amendments to principal Act

Schedule 3
Amendments to other Acts

Schedule 4
Amendments to Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Prescribed Information and Forms) Regulations 1995

Schedule 5
Amendments to other regulations

Legislative history

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: