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Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2001

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Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2001

Public Act
  
2001 No 56
Date of assent
  
26 September 2001
 

Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2001: repealed, on 15 June 2023, pursuant to section 146 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 (2021 No 57).

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 have been made in this consolidation. See the notes at the end of this consolidation for further details.

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

Contents

1 Title
2 Commencement
3 New section 78A inserted
78A Disclosure of birth information, death information, and marriage information to certain specified agencies for certain purposes
4 New Schedule 1A inserted
Schedule
New Schedule 1A inserted in Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995
Notes

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:

 
1 Title

(1)

This Act is the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2001.

(2)

In this Act, the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995 is called “the principal Act”.

2 Commencement

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

3 New section 78A inserted

The principal Act is amended by inserting, after section 78, the following section:

78A Disclosure of birth information, death information, and marriage information to certain specified agencies for certain purposes

(1)

The purpose of this section is to authorise the disclosure of birth information, death information, and marriage information to certain specified agencies for certain purposes.

(2)

The Registrar-General and the chief executive of a specified agency listed in the first column of Schedule 1A may enter into an agreement for the disclosure by the Registrar-General to the chief executive of any information described in the second column of that schedule in relation to the specified agency only for the purpose described in the third column of that schedule in relation to the information.

(3)

An agreement entered into under subsection (2) may be varied by the Registrar-General and the chief executive.

(4)

The Registrar-General may disclose birth information, death information, and marriage information to the chief executive only in accordance with Schedule 1A and an agreement entered into under subsection (2).

(5)

In this section, specified agency has the meaning given to it by section 97 of the Privacy Act 1993.

4 New Schedule 1A inserted

The principal Act is amended by inserting, before Schedule 1, the Schedule 1A set out in the Schedule.

Schedule New Schedule 1A inserted in Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995

s 4

Schedule 1A Disclosure of information to specified agencies

s 78A

Specified agency Type of information Purpose
Department for Courts Marriage information To verify a fine defaulter’s change of name
Death information

To—

(a)

remove the names of deceased persons from jury lists:

(b)

remit or enforce payment of fines owed by deceased persons
Department of Internal Affairs Birth information, marriage information and death information

To verify whether a person is eligible—

(a)

to hold a New Zealand passport:

(b)

for New Zealand citizenship
Department of Inland Revenue Birth information and marriage information

To verify the identity of a person to establish—

(a)

the tax file number of the person:

(b)

the details of an applicant for child support
Death information To identify deceased taxpayers and verify their details
Land Transport Safety Authority of New Zealand Birth information To verify details supplied by an applicant for a driver licence
Marriage information To verify the change of name of the holder of a driver licence
Death information To identify deceased holders of driver licences
Department of Labour Birth information

To verify—

(a)

a person’s citizenship status:

(b)

a person’s entitlement to reside in New Zealand
Marriage information To verify the marriage of a person to a New Zealand citizen
Death information To identify deceased holders of limited term permits or visas
Department of Work and Income Birth information, marriage information, and death information To verify a person’s eligibility or continuing eligibility for benefits, war pensions, grants, loans, or allowances
Consolidation notes
1 General

This is a consolidation of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2001 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 About this consolidation

This consolidation is not an official version of the legislation under section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019.

3 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

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

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Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2001

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