New Zealand Acts

CIVIL UNION ACT 2004

- As at 15 June 2023
- Act 102 of 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 1 - Preliminary provisions

   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Overview of civil union
   5.      Reference to civil union in any other enactment
   5A.     Transitional, savings, and related provisions
   6.      Act binds the Crown

   PART 2 - Civil unions

           SUBPART 1 - Entering into civil union

   7.      Age of eligibility
   8.      Partners not to be already married or in civil union
   9.      Partners not to be within prohibited degrees of civil union
   10.     Order dispensing with prohibition on civil union within prohibited degrees of affinity
   11.     Notice of civil union
   12.     Issue of licence and forms where solemnisation by civil union celebrant or exempt body
   13.     Licence authorises but does not oblige
   14.     Solemnisation by Registrar
   15.     Solemnisation by civil union celebrant
   16.     Solemnisation by exempt body
   17.     Purpose of section 18
   18.     Changing form of relationship
   19.     Consent to civil union of persons aged 16 or 17
   20.     Court may appoint lawyers in proceedings under section 19
   20A.    Judge may obtain cultural report
   21.     Notice of objection to proposed civil union
   22.     Judge to deal with notice of objection
   23.     When civil union is or may be declared void
   24.     Effect of defects in formalities or procedures
   25.     Registrar-General may issue certificate of no impediment

           SUBPART 2 - Civil union celebrants

   26.     Appointment of civil union celebrants
   27.     Expiry of appointment and reappointment
   28.     Ceasing to be civil union celebrant
   29.     List of civil union celebrants

           SUBPART 3 - Offences and miscellaneous provisions

   30.     Offence to issue licence or solemnise civil union contrary to Act
   31.     Offence to purport to solemnise civil union
   32.     Offences in connection with false statements relating to civil union
   33.     Limitation on prosecutions
   34.     Registrar-General
   35.     Regulations
   36.     Rules of procedure
   37.     Appointment of civil union celebrants before section 26 comes into force

           SUBPART 4 - Amendments to other enactments

   38.     Amendments to section 2 of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995
   39.     New Part 7A inserted in Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995
   40.     Sections 16 and 23 of Adoption Act 1955 amended
   41.     Section 205 of Crimes Act 1961 amended
   42.     Section 206 of Crimes Act 1961 amended
   43.     New section 207 of Crimes Act 1961 substituted
   44.     Amendments to Family Proceedings Act 1980
   45.     Amendments to Family Proceedings Act 1980 made by Care of Children Act 2004 amended
   46.     Consequential amendments to other enactments
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