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Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021

Registration of information - Marriages and civil unions - Notification of marriage outside New Zealand

55: Person who solemnises service marriage must notify marriage to Registrar-General

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"Tell the Registrar-General about a service marriage"

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If you solemnise a service marriage, you must do a few things. You have to make a record of the marriage immediately after it happens, in a form similar to the one the Registrar-General provides under section 24(1)(b) of the Marriage Act 1955. You also have to get the record and two copies of it signed by the couple, yourself, and two witnesses. You have to give one copy of the record to the couple. You must then give the other copy of the record to the Registrar-General as soon as possible.

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Part 2Registration of information
Marriages and civil unions: Notification of marriage outside New Zealand

55Person who solemnises service marriage must notify marriage to Registrar-General

  1. A person who solemnises a service marriage (other than a service marriage solemnised in a Commonwealth country in which information about the marriage has been recorded in accordance with that country’s laws) must,—

  2. immediately after the solemnisation,—
    1. make and keep a record of information relating to the marriage in a form that as nearly as possible accords with the form that the Registrar-General provides under section 24(1)(b) of the Marriage Act 1955 to a person who gives notice of marriage; and
      1. ensure that the record and 2 copies of it are signed by each party to the marriage, the person, and 2 witnesses to the solemnisation; and
        1. give 1 copy of the record to the parties; and
        2. as soon as practicable after the solemnisation, provide the other copy of the record to the Registrar-General.

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