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Post Office Amendment Act (No 3) 1982

Public Act		1982 No 161
Date of assent		17 December 1982

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Declarations of secrecy
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Post Office Act 1959

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Post Office Amendment Act (No. 3) 1982, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Post Office Act 1959 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of July 1983.

2 Declarations of secrecy

The First Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by revoking clauses 5 and 6 of the form set out in that Schedule, and substituting the following provisions:

“5

That I will not divulge, or cause or suffer to be divulged, except as lawfully permitted,—

“(a)

Any knowledge obtained in lawfully examining any postal article; or

“(b)

The contents or purport of any telegraph or telephone message; or

“(c)

The name of any depositor in a Post Office Savings Bank Account or the name of the registered holder of any bonus bond, development bond, or registered security; or

“(d)

The amount deposited in any Post Office Savings Bank Account or the number or value of bonus bonds, development bonds, or registered securities issued to or held by any person; or

“(e)

The amount withdrawn from any Post Office Savings Bank Account or the amount paid to any person in respect of any bonus bond, development bond, or registered security; or

“(f)

The balance of any depositor’s Post Office Savings Bank Account.

“6

That I will disclose any information acquired by me as an officer or employee of the Post Office only in accordance with my official duty.

“And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957.”

This Act is administered in the Post Office.

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