Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002: repealed, on 15 June 2023, pursuant to section 146 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 (2021 No 57).
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002
Version as at 15 June 2023
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002
Public Act |
2002 No 59 |
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Date of assent |
18 December 2002 |
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Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002: repealed, on 15 June 2023, pursuant to section 146 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 (2021 No 57).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 by the Department of Internal Affairs.
Contents
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
1 Title
(1)
This Act is the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002.
(2)
In this Act, the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995 is called “the principal Act”
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2 Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
3 Schedule 1A amended
(1)
Schedule 1A of the principal Act is amended by inserting, after the item relating to the Department for Courts, the following item:
| Department for Courts (Maori Land Court Unit) | Death information | To identify deceased Maori landowners |
(2)
Schedule 1A of the principal Act is amended by repealing the item relating to the Department of Work and Income, and substituting the following item:
| Department of Work and Income | Birth information, marriage information, and death information | To— | |
| (a) | verify a person’s eligibility or continuing eligibility for benefits, war pensions, grants, loans, or allowances: | ||
| (b) | verify a person’s eligibility or continuing eligibility for a community services card: | ||
| (c) | identify debtors, including any person no longer in receipt of a benefit, war pension, grant, loan, or allowance |
(3)
Schedule 1A of the principal Act is amended by adding the following item:
| Ministry of Education | Birth information and death information | To verify and update student information on the National Student Index |
4 Consequential amendment to Privacy Act 1993
The Third Schedule of the Privacy Act 1993 (1993 No 28) is amended by inserting, after the item relating to the Tax Administration Act 1994, the following item:
| Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995 | Section 78A |
Consolidation notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2002 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