Reprint
as at 25 January 2009

Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration (Fees) Regulations 1995

(SR 1995/185)
Catherine A Tizard, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 4th day of September 1995
Present:Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Regulations name: substituted, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(1) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
These regulations are administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.

Pursuant to section 88(1)(a) of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following regulations.

Contents

1 Title and commencement
1A Interpretation
2 Fees
3 Amount of goods and services tax included
4 Revocation
Schedule
Fees to be paid under Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995 (inclusive of GST)

Regulations

1 Title and commencement

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration (Fees) Regulations 1995.
(2) These regulations shall come into force on the day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.
Regulation 1(1): amended, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).

1A Interpretation

In these regulations, certificate means a birth certificate, death certificate, marriage certificate, civil union certificate, or name change certificate.
Regulation 1A: inserted, on 16 November 2006, by regulation 4 of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SR 2006/329).
Regulation 1A: amended, on 25 January 2009, by regulation 4 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2008 (SR 2008/413).

2 Fees

There shall be paid to the Registrar-General or, as the case requires, to a Registrar, for each of the matters specified in the Schedule, the fee specified for it in that schedule.

3 Amount of goods and services tax included

The fees prescribed by these regulations are inclusive of goods and services tax under the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985.

4 Revocation

The Births and Deaths Registration (Fees) Regulations 1989 (SR 1989/319) and Births and Deaths Registration (Fees) Regulations 1989, Amendment No 1 (SR 1993/220) are hereby revoked.

Schedule
Fees to be paid under Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995 (inclusive of GST)

r 2

Schedule: substituted, on 3 October 2001, by regulation 3 of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2001 (SR 2001/297).
Schedule heading: amended, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).

No
Matter

Fee($)

1
Search in respect of event under 1 name for a given year (plus year either side)
15.00

2
Continuation of search at the same time for each event under 1 name for each additional year
1.00

3
Inspection of any document
26.00

4
Copy of any document
20.00

5
Electronic printout of any document—
 

 
from years 1848 to 1874
26.00

 
post 1874
20.00

6
Certificate other than a decorative certificate
26.00

6A
Decorative certificate (if available)
26.00

6B
Certificate and decorative certificate (if available) for the same birth, death, marriage, or civil union if both certificates are requested in the same application
39.00

7
Certified copy of deed poll
20.00

8
[Revoked]
 

9
Change of child's name within 2 years of birth
50.00

10
Change of name
125.00

11
[Revoked]
 

12
Change of name in relation to marriage or civil union
45.00

13
Recording additional information in relation to sexual assignment or reassignment
50.00

14
Verification of death of adopted person, adoptive parents, or adopted person's natural parents
80.00

15
[Revoked]
 

16
Deposit of overseas death certificate
50.00

17
Statement of recorded information about an overseas death
26.00

18
Verification when correct year given of information contained in an entry
26.00

19
[Revoked]
 

20
[Revoked]
 

21
[Revoked]
 

22
[Revoked]
 

23
[Revoked]
 

24
[Revoked]
 

24A
[Revoked]
 

25
[Revoked]
 

26
[Revoked]
 

27
[Revoked]
 

28
[Revoked]
 

29
[Revoked]
 

30
[Revoked]
 

31
[Revoked]
 

Schedule item 1: amended, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 3: amended, on 1 September 2003, by regulation 3(1) of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SR 2003/160).
Schedule item 5: substituted, on 1 September 2003, by regulation 3(2) of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SR 2003/160).
Schedule item 6: substituted, on 16 November 2006, by regulation 5 of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SR 2006/329).
Schedule item 6A: inserted, on 16 November 2006, by regulation 5 of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SR 2006/329).
Schedule item 6B: inserted, on 16 November 2006, by regulation 5 of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SR 2006/329).
Schedule item 8: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 11: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 12: amended, on 26 April 2005, by regulation 3(1) of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2005 (SR 2005/83).
Schedule item 15: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 17: amended, on 1 September 2003, by regulation 3(3) of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SR 2003/160).
Schedule item 18: amended, on 1 September 2003, by regulation 3(3) of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SR 2003/160).
Schedule item 19: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 20: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 21: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 22: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 23: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 24: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 24A: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 25: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 26: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 27: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 28: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 29: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 30: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).
Schedule item 31: revoked, on 24 January 2009, by section 49(2) of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48).

Marie Shroff,Clerk of the Executive Council.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notification in Gazette: 7 September 1995.

Contents

1General
2Status of reprints
3How reprints are prepared
4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989
5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration (Fees) Regulations 1995. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 25 January 2009, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.
Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.
This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.
A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.
In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

•omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)
•typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

•layout of provisions, including:

•indentation
•position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

•format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)
•format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)
•position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)
•punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)
•Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

•case and appearance of letters and words, including:

•format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)
•small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

•schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly
•running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)
•format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2008 (SR 2008/413)
Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 48): section 49
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SR 2006/329)
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2005 (SR 2005/83)
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SR 2003/160)
Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2001 (SR 2001/297)