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4 Title repealed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 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 Definitions for sections 21A and 21B
21A Application for registration of name change
21B Registration of name change
14 Registration of New Zealand adoptions
15 New section 27A inserted
27A Definitions for sections 28 and 29
16 Declarations of Family Court as to sex to be shown on birth certificates issued for adults
17 Declarations of Family Court as to appropriate gender identity for children
18 Sections 37 to 41 repealed
19 Deposit with Registrar-General of death certificates issued outside New Zealand
20 New section 62 substituted
62 Recording new names in relation to marriages
21 New section 62G substituted
62G Recording new names in relation to civil unions
22 Birth certificates for adopted persons
23 New section 65 substituted
65 Request for new identity information for certain witnesses, etc
24 Birth certificates generally
25 New section 70B inserted
70B Name change certificates
26 Heading to Part 9 substituted
27 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 78J 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 Supply of information to foreign registration authorities must be in accordance with written agreement
78F Disclosure of death information to non-government organisations for certain purposes
78G Definition for sections 78H and 78I
78H Registrar-General may make certain historical information available
78I Index information must not be made available on Internet
78J Review of operation of sections 74 to 75G, 78F, and 78H
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 Regulations
39 Offences and penalties
40 New section 89A inserted
89A Electronic transactions
41 Fees
42 New sections 91A and 91B inserted
91A No liability for costs incurred in supplying information
91B Protection for supply of information
43 Transitional provision relating to applications under principal Act
44 Transitional provision relating to Human Tissue Act 2008
45 New Schedule 1A substituted
46 Consequential amendments to principal Act
Part 2Amendments to other enactments
47 Amendments to other Acts
48 Amendments to Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Prescribed Information and Forms) Regulations 1995
49 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: