New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

19 Confidentiality of information

• (1) No officer or employee of the organisation or any other person who gathers information may disclose (except to some other officer or employee of the organisation) any information obtained—

  • (a) under or because of this order; or

  • (b) under the Commodity Levies Act 1990 in relation to this order.

  (2) Subclause (1) does not affect or prevent—

  • (a) the production of records or accounts under section 17(1) of the Commodity Levies Act 1990; or

  • (b) the production of any statement under section 25 of the Commodity Levies Act 1990; or

  • (c) the giving of evidence in any legal proceedings taken—

    • (i) under or in relation to this order; or

    • (ii) in relation to this order, under or in relation to the Commodity Levies Act 1990.

  (3) Subclause (1) does not prevent the organisation from—

  • (a) disclosing or using any information (not being information relating to an identifiable person) for statistical or research purposes; or

  • (b) disclosing or using any information for the purposes of invoicing and collecting the levy; or

  • (c) disclosing or using any information with the consent of every identifiable person to whom it relates.