General contact information
Christmas and New Year office hours
Births, Deaths and Marriages will be closed from 5pm on 21 December, and will reopen on 3 January. During this time a call out service is available for urgent death registrations and other urgent matters, please contact us for further information.
The Contact Centre will be open 27, 28 and 31 December from 8:30am to 5pm for urgent enquiries only.
| Freephone: | 0800 22 52 52 (NZ only) |
| Phone: | +64 4 463 9362 (outside NZ) |
| Email: | bdm.nz@dia.govt.nz |
| Opening hours: | Monday to Thursday 8am to 7pm, Friday 9am to 7pm, Saturday 9am to 2pm |
| Postal address: | PO Box 10526 Wellington 6143 |
| Online information: |
If you're emailing about an order you have placed you must provide the following:
- your name
- delivery address
- details of the product you ordered including full name and date of the event. For example, birth certificate for John Smith, date of birth 1 February 2012.
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