The prices for most birth, death, marriage and relationship products and services are set to increase by around 5.6% from June 18 this year, the Department of Internal Affairs announced today, with further increases to come. <\/p>\n
The cost of birth, death and marriage (BDM) certificates, the most commonly accessed services, will increase from $33 to $35. It would go up another $2 on June 16 next year and then again on the same date in 2028.<\/p>\n
Copies of any of those documents will be up to $26 from $25, and there will be further increases in the following years. <\/p>\n
Registering a birth or death will remain free of charge, and no new fees are being introduced. <\/p>\n
The largest fee increase came for the registry ceremony fee for a marriage or civil union.<\/p>\n
This was the fee paid directly to the marriage celebrant, which will go up from $90 to $175. It is a one-off increase. <\/p>\n
Couples pay the celebrant fee in addition to the marriage licence fee, which will increase from $150 to $158 \u2013 putting the baseline cost of getting married at $333, up $93 from $240.<\/p>\n
The adjustments would support the rising costs of staffing and distribution, as well as the replacement of essential IT systems.<\/p>\n
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Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages Russell Burnard said he was confident the increases struck the right balance between keeping fees as low as possible and maintaining a sustainable service.<\/p>\n
“Updating fees is essential to maintain high-quality, efficient and sustainable services,” he said.<\/p>\n
“BDM services are primarily funded by fees, not by taxpayers, and they have remained unchanged for almost ten years.”<\/p>\n
In contrast to those previous years, most fees were set for annual bumps, forecasted up to 2028.<\/p>\n
A full list of the impacted BDM products and services and their amended fees was available via the Department of Internal Affairs website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prices for most birth, death, marriage and relationship products and services are set to increase by around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[219,42,5944,43,479,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-437702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-economy","tag-headlines","tag-life-issues","tag-news","tag-relationships","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}