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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Registration of information - Marriages and civil unions - Change of form of relationship

59: Registrar-General to note change of form of relationship

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"Registrar-General updates records when your relationship status changes"

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You can change the form of your relationship under section 18 of the Civil Union Act 2004. The Registrar-General must update the records when this happens. They will note the change in the earlier relationship record and the new relationship record, and link these two records together.

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Part 2Registration of information
Marriages and civil unions: Change of form of relationship

59Registrar-General to note change of form of relationship

  1. If the Registrar-General is informed that the parties to a marriage or civil union have, under section 18 of the Civil Union Act 2004, changed the form of their relationship, the Registrar-General must—

  2. register, in the record relating to the earlier marriage or civil union, an indication that the form of relationship has been changed and when and where the change occurred; and
    1. register, in the record relating to the later marriage or civil union, that, on the date and at the place in which the solemnisation of the later marriage or civil union took place, the parties changed their earlier marriage or civil union into a marriage or civil union; and
      1. ensure that a link is created between the record relating to the earlier marriage or civil union and the record relating to the later marriage or civil union.

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