Gerry Cardinalli
@ Catchphraze... Two years ago the New Zealand Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act was changed. ALL Birth Certificates over five years old are now obsolete. They cannot be used. You need to do some more research my friend. There is a 'constitutional con' attached to what your Birth Certificate really is. Firstly, if you look at the bottom of your Birth Certificate it says that it cannot be used as a form of identification. BUT, when you apply for a drivers license, enrol a child at a school, apply for membership at a sports club etc, what do they ask you to present? Right,- your Birth Certificate. They also want a copy of it to apply for a passport. So, whilst the Government issued your Birth Certificate, (after your parents submitted your Certificate of Live Birth, which was then crossed over to Government form #RG142) and they then informed you that it is NOT a form of ID accepted 'legally', why did they then ask for its presentation numerous times? AND - why did you present it knowing it cannot be presented as such? The whole point of the Governments exercise was to generate revenue by 'forcing' everyone to reapply each five years for a new Birth Certificate which states you cannot use it in the way they then ask you to. I refuse to. I was only born once. So I only need that fact evidenced once. Similarly we have had two versions of a 'lifetime' drivers license. I still have my paper one. I simply presented it to a Justice of the Peace whom I knew personally, and asked him to validate a photo I glued onto it as being ME. The JP placed his stamp upon it, signed it and therefore it is legally/lawfully validated.