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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Registration of information - Deaths - Notification of deaths in New Zealand

43: Other person may be authorised to notify

You could also call this:

"Someone else can tell us about a death if they get permission"

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You can notify a death if you are not required to, but only if someone who is required to notify the death gives you permission. You can also notify a death if the Registrar-General gives you permission and no one else has notified the death. If you are required to notify a death, you can ask someone else to do it for you, and your job is done if they notify the death.

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Part 2Registration of information
Deaths: Notification of deaths in New Zealand

43Other person may be authorised to notify

  1. A person who is not required under sections 40 to 42 to notify a death may notify the death only if the person is authorised to do so—

  2. by a person who is required under any of those sections to notify the death; or
    1. by the Registrar-General (in a case where no one else has notified the death).

      1. A person’s obligation under any of sections 40 to 42 to notify a death is satisfied if—

      2. the person has authorised another person to notify the death; and
        1. the other person has notified it.

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