15Application for court order

15 Application for court order

15 Application for court order

(1) An applicant may apply to the Supreme Court for an order authorising a specified person or class of persons to do the following—

(a) make a new entry in the following registers in relation to a participant—

(i) the register of births,

(ii) the register of deaths,

(iii) the register of marriages,

(b) in relation to an identity record of a participant held by an agency to which the order relates—

(i) remove the identity record, or

(ii) create a new identity record in the participant’s new identity,

(c) issue a document of a kind previously issued to the participant in the participant’s new identity.

(1A) An application under subsection (1)(b)(i) must specify the type of identity record to be removed.

(2) The applicant must provide such evidence as the Supreme Court may require to satisfy itself as to the matters specified in section 17.

(3) In this section—

applicant means—

(a) the Commissioner of Police, or

(b) the designated authority for a complementary witness protection law.

s 15: Am 2002 No 54, Sch 1 [18]–[21]; 2024 No 89, Sch 1[21] [22].