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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Registrar-General and registry - Functions, duties, and powers - Correction of errors

134: Health information may be used to correct records

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"Fixing mistakes in birth and death records using health information"

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You can help fix mistakes in birth and death records. The chief executive of the department responsible for the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 can tell the Registrar-General about errors. They can also give the Registrar-General information to fix the mistakes. You can correct birth and death information using the given information. The Registrar-General can fix the records if they get the right information. The chief executive can look at health information to find mistakes in birth and death records, and then tell the Registrar-General to fix them, by using information from the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000.

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Part 5Registrar-General and registry
Functions, duties, and powers: Correction of errors

134Health information may be used to correct records

  1. The chief executive of the department for the time being responsible for administering the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 may—

  2. advise the Registrar-General of an apparent omission or error if the chief executive believes on reasonable grounds that a person’s birth or death has not been registered under this Act or has been registered incorrectly; and
    1. provide to the Registrar-General sufficient information to enable the error or omission to be corrected.

      1. The Registrar-General may correct birth information or death information in accordance with information provided under this section.

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