New Zealand Legislation: Bills

3 Purpose

• The purpose of this Act is to—

  • (a) remove the current restrictions on who may make an information privacy request; and

  • (b) enable public sector agencies to charge for making personal information available to overseas foreign nationals; and

  • (c) provide for the referral of cross-border complaints to the appropriate privacy enforcement authority; and

  • (d) establish a mechanism for controlling the transfer of information outside of New Zealand where the information has been routed through New Zealand to circumvent the privacy laws of the country from where the information originated.