Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2010: repealed, on 15 June 2023, pursuant to section 146 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 (2021 No 57).

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This Act is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:

1 Title

This Act is the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2010.

2 Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.

3 Principal Act amended

This Act amends the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995.

4 Interpretation

The definition of delivery in section 2 is repealed.

5 Births on New Zealand aircraft or ships

Section 8 is amended by omitting “Civil Aviation Regulations 1953” and substituting “Civil Aviation Act 1990”.

6 Parents primarily responsible for notifying birth

Section 9(2) is amended by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (b):

(ba)

it is not reasonably practicable to obtain the other parent’s signature because—

(i)

he or she is overseas; and

(ii)

he or she cannot be contacted within a period of time that is reasonable in the circumstances; or

7 Record of citizenship

(1)

Section 12A(1) and (2) are amended by omitting “on the birth record” and substituting in each case “as part of the child’s birth information”.

(2)

Section 12A(3) is amended by repealing paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

(b)

any birth information registered under this Act or a former Act about the parents or parent of the person:

8 Registration of certain still-births

Section 13(3) is amended by omitting “registrar” and substituting “Registrar”.

9 Deaths on New Zealand aircraft or ships

Section 36 is amended by omitting “Civil Aviation Regulations 1953” and substituting “Civil Aviation Act 1990”.

10 Marriages outside New Zealand

Section 54 is amended by omitting “sections 56 and 58” and substituting “sections 56, 57, and 58”.

11 Section 61 repealed

Section 61 is repealed.

12 Restrictions on searches relating to adopted persons

Section 76(3)(c) is amended by omitting “section 11(4)(b)” in each place where it appears and substituting in each case “section 11(4)(a)”.

Notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2010 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 (2021 No 57): section 146

Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2010