R v Chief Executive of the Department of Work and Income - [2003] 3 NZLR 319

Family and domestic relationships — Paternity — Application for domestic purposes benefit — Whether naming putative father on application form without more where he had refused to acknowledge paternity amounted to identification of other parent “in law” — Whether appellant had taken “active steps” to identify in law the other parent — Social Security Act 1964, s 70A(1)(c)(i) and (3).

Social security, pensions and superannuation — Social security benefits — Application for domestic purposes benefit — Whether naming putative father on application form without more where he had refused to acknowledge paternity amounted to identification of other parent “in law” — Whether appellant had taken “active steps” to identify in law the other parent — Social Security Act 1964, s 70A(1)(c)(i), (3).