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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Registration of information - Adoptions - Notification of adoption

31: Court must notify Registrar-General of New Zealand adoptions

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"Courts must tell the Registrar-General about New Zealand adoptions"

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When a court makes an adoption order, you need to know that the court must tell the Registrar-General. The court tells the Registrar-General the person's names before and after the adoption. The court also tells the Registrar-General the names of the person's parents before the adoption. The court gives the Registrar-General more information, like the date of the order and the name of the court. The court also says if the adoptive parent or parents want certain words on the person's birth certificate. The court tells the Registrar-General any other information required by regulations, including information about the notification of births under subpart 2. The Registrar-General gets all this information as soon as possible after the court makes the adoption order.

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Part 2Registration of information
Adoptions: Notification of adoption

31Court must notify Registrar-General of New Zealand adoptions

  1. A Registrar of a court in which an adoption order is made must, as soon as practicable after the making of the order, notify the Registrar-General of the following information (so far as it is known to the court):

  2. the names (if any) of the adopted person immediately before the making of the order:
    1. the names conferred on the person by the order:
      1. the names of the persons who were the person’s parents immediately before the making of the order:
        1. whether the adoptive parent or parents want the words adoptive parent or adoptive parents (as the case requires) to appear on the face of birth certificates relating to the person:
          1. the date of the order:
            1. the name of the court:
              1. any information required by regulations under this Act in relation to the notification of births under subpart 2 that would have been appropriate if the adopted person had been born to the adoptive parent or parents:
                1. any other information required by regulations.

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