The Iwi Affiliation Data Decision Group, Te Kāhui Tātai Tupuna, has recommended the Crown resume collecting people’s iwi affiliation information when it introduces a new civil registration system in 2024.
The system will replace the existing registers of births, deaths and marriages.
Group co-chair Kirikowhai Mikaere says the crown will need to work with iwi to design a system that would enable iwi to verify that data.
Iwi also want input into how their data in government possession should be stored, accessed and governed.
New Zealand stopped recording iwi affiliation information on Māori birth registrations in 1961.
