Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2013
Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2013: repealed, on 15 June 2023, pursuant to section 146 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 (2021 No 57).
Version as at 15 June 2023
Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2013
Public Act |
2013 No 3 |
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Date of assent |
26 February 2013 |
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Commencement |
see section 2 |
Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2013: repealed, on 15 June 2023, pursuant to section 146 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 (2021 No 57).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.
Contents
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
1 Title
This Act is the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2013.
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 Disclosure of birth information, death information, marriage information, civil union information, and name change information to certain specified agencies for certain purposes
Section 78A(4) is amended by inserting “under this section”
after “chief executive”
.
5 New section 78AA inserted
The following section is inserted after section 78A:
78AA Disclosure of birth information, death information, marriage information, civil union information, and name change information under approved information sharing agreement
(1)
The Registrar-General may share the following personal information about an identifiable individual under an approved information sharing agreement:
(a)
birth information:
(b)
death information:
(c)
marriage information:
(d)
civil union information:
(e)
name change information.
(2)
This section does not limit section 74.
(3)
This section and section 78A do not limit each other, and section 78A does not prevent the Registrar-General from entering into an information sharing agreement with any agency to share information of the kind specified in subsection (1).
(4)
Subsection (1) applies whether or not a non-disclosure direction is in force in respect of any or all of the personal information about an identifiable individual referred to in that subsection.
(5)
In this section,—
approved information sharing agreement and information sharing agreement have the meanings given to them by section 96C of the Privacy Act 1993
non-disclosure direction means a direction made by the Registrar-General on a request under section 75A(2)(b) that a person’s birth information, marriage information, civil union information, or name change information not be disclosed to the public.
Notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2013 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