Information for Death Certificate Registration

This information will be required for the Death Certificate and to enable us to make the process of looking after your loved one as smooth as possible. We recommend that you gather this information together and keep it on file where family can find it, as well as providing us with the information as we pre-plan arrangements. 

Other important information (as applicable):

• Doctor
• Next of Kin
• War service: War. No. Rank: Unit
• Solicitor
• Trustee
• IRD Number (when investing funds)
• Insurance policy information if using to pay for funeral expenses
• Information about existing family burial plot
• Clergy name and phone number

• Full legal name, home address and phone number
• Occupation
• Date of birth
• Place of birth
• If born overseas, year of arriving in New Zealand
• Father’s name
• Mother’s name and maiden name
• Relationship status
• Names and relationships of survivors including marriage details: age at marriage, place of marriage
• Date of birth of spouse
• Date of birth of divorced spouse (if living)
• Birth dates and gender of Living Children
• Ethnic origins