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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Registration of information - Marriages and civil unions - Convictions for bigamy

65: Notification of conviction for bigamy or coerced marriage or civil union

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"Telling the Registrar-General about convictions for marrying someone when already married"

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If you are convicted of bigamy or coerced marriage or civil union, the court must tell the Registrar-General. The court must do this as soon as possible after you are convicted. The court can tell the Registrar-General by giving them a certificate with your details and the details of the marriage or civil union. You can be convicted of bigamy if you are already married or in a civil union and you marry or enter into a civil union with someone else. The court must give the Registrar-General information like your name, the name of the other person, and the date and place of the marriage or civil union. The Ministry of Justice can also give the Registrar-General this information electronically, as described in section 60, 62F(1), and 89A(2A), (2B). The Registrar-General needs this information to keep track of marriages and civil unions in New Zealand.

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Part 2Registration of information
Marriages and civil unions: Convictions for bigamy

65Notification of conviction for bigamy or coerced marriage or civil union

  1. This section applies if a person who is a party to a marriage or civil union is convicted of bigamy or coerced marriage or civil union because the marriage or civil union is a bigamous or coerced marriage or civil union.

  2. The Registrar of the court in which the conviction was entered must notify the Registrar-General of the conviction as soon as practicable after the person is convicted.

  3. The notification may be made by—

  4. the Registrar of the court providing a certificate of the conviction that specifies, in relation to each bigamous marriage or civil union,—
    1. the names of the parties to the marriage or civil union; and
      1. the date and place of the marriage or civil union; and
        1. the date of the conviction; or
        2. the Ministry of Justice providing, by electronic means, the information described in paragraph (a).

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