Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act 1963
Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act 1963
Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act 1963
Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act 1963
Public Act |
1963 No 76 |
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Date of assent |
23 October 1963 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1951
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Registration of births or deaths occurring outside New Zealand on New Zealand ship or aircraft
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 15, the following section:
“15a
Where a child has been born, whether before or after the commencement of this section, outside New Zealand on a New Zealand ship within the meaning of the Shipping and Seamen Act 1952 or on board an aircraft registered in New Zealand pursuant to the Civil Aviation Act 1948, and the parents or other persons having lawful charge of the child were not about to take up their abode in New Zealand, the Registrar-General may authorise any Registrar to register the birth, and the Registrar shall register the birth in accordance with the provisions of this Act relating to the registration of births taking place in New Zealand so far as those provisions may be complied with in the circumstances:
“Provided it shall not be necessary for any person to sign the register as informant.”
(2)
Section 33a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 4 of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act 1955) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “occurs outside New Zealand”
, and substituting the words “has occurred outside New Zealand, whether before or after the commencement of this section”
.
3 Registration of death when Court gives leave to swear death
The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 33a (as so inserted), the following section:
“33b
Where in any proceedings under the Administration Act 1952 the Supreme Court has given leave to swear to the death of any person, the Registrar of the Court shall notify the Registrar-General, who may authorise any Registrar to register the death, and the Registrar shall register the death in accordance with the provisions of this Act so far as those provisions can be complied with in the circumstances:
“Provided that it shall not be necessary for any person to sign the register as informant.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.