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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

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114: Registrar-General may share certain personal information with overseas registration authorities

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The Registrar-General can share some personal information with authorities in other countries. You might be wondering what kind of information this is - it can include details about a name change or a death. The Registrar-General can share this information if you were born in the country where the overseas authority is in charge. The Registrar-General might decide not to share name-change information if you can show that there are special reasons why it should not be shared. These special reasons could be about your personal situation and might be related to your safety or wellbeing. You would need to explain these reasons to the Registrar-General. The Registrar-General can also get information from overseas authorities about name changes or deaths. This can happen if you were born in New Zealand or if you are a New Zealand citizen. The Registrar-General can share information about marriages or civil unions that have ended with overseas authorities if the marriage or civil union was registered in the country where the authority is in charge. The Registrar-General can get information from overseas authorities about divorces or the end of marriages or civil unions. This can happen if the marriage or civil union was registered in New Zealand. You can find more information about this by looking at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM1806407

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Disclosure and sharing of information: Disclosure of information to overseas registration authorities

114Registrar-General may share certain personal information with overseas registration authorities

  1. The Registrar-General may supply a person’s name-change information or death information to an overseas registration authority if the person’s birth is registered in the State in which the overseas registration authority has jurisdiction.

  2. The Registrar-General may decide not to supply name-change information under subsection (1) if the person who is the subject of the name-change information satisfies the Registrar-General that the name-change information should not be supplied because of exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian or another nature relating to that person.

  3. The Registrar-General may obtain, hold, and record information from an overseas registration authority relating to a name change or death in the State in which the overseas registration authority has jurisdiction if the information relates to a person—

  4. whose birth is registered under this Act; or
    1. who is a New Zealand citizen or is legally entitled to be in New Zealand indefinitely.

      1. The Registrar-General may supply information recorded in the registry about the dissolution of a marriage or civil union to an overseas registration authority if the person’s marriage or civil union is registered in the State in which the overseas registration authority has jurisdiction.

      2. The Registrar-General may obtain, hold, and record information from an overseas registration authority relating to a divorce or dissolution of a marriage or civil union in the State in which the overseas registration authority has jurisdiction if the information relates to a marriage or civil union that is registered in New Zealand.

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