Fundamentally, this bill makes important changes to New Zealand's register of Births, Deaths and Marriages, a national record that collates information from our first to our last breath, and a lot of very important life events in between. Protecting the integrity of this record is critical. New Zealanders, rightly, have a growing expectation that all Government services are accessible through the online and digital platforms they use. The bill underpins how we create, change, use, and access identity documents in a way that reflects and supports the ever-changing profile of our communities. 