This Act may be cited as the Wanganui Computer Centre Amendment Act 1983, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Wanganui Computer Centre Act 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Use of computer system

Section 4(3) of the principal Act (as amended by section 4 of the Wanganui Computer Centre Amendment Act 1980) is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (d), and substituting the following paragraph:

“(d)

The Commissioner, who may use the means of access to the computer system for the purposes of sections 14 and 16 of this Act.”

3 Duplicates of tapes and discs

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 27 (as amended by section 8 of the Wanganui Computer Centre Amendment Act 1980), the following section:

“27a

“(1)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, but subject to subsections (2) to (4) of this section, the State Services Commission may store, in a place outside the Wanganui Computer Centre, duplicates of tapes or discs on which information stored in the computer system is held.

“(2)

The power conferred on the State Services Commission by subsection (1) of this section may be exercised by the State Services Commission only if both the place at which the duplicates are from time to time stored and the manner in which such duplicates are from time to time stored and protected are approved in writing by both the Policy Committee and the Commissioner.

“(3)

Any approval given for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section may at any time be amended or revoked by the Policy Committee and the Commissioner.

“(4)

Nothing in this section prevents the State Services Commission from storing, in the Wanganui Computer Centre, duplicates of tapes or discs on which information stored in the computer system is held.”

4 Offences

(1)

Section 29(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following paragraphs:

“(d)

Knowingly falsifies any duplicate tape or disc on which information stored in the computer system is held; or

“(e)

Wilfully damages any duplicate tape or disc on which information stored in the computer system is held.”

(2)

Section 29(1)(c) of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by adding the expression “; or”.

5 Schedule amended

(1)

The Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the part headed Police Department Records the word “registration” where it appears after the word “Firearms”.

(2)

The said Schedule is hereby further amended by inserting in the part headed Police Department Records, after the words “Arms Act 1958”, the words “or the Arms Act 1983”.

(3)

The said Schedule is hereby further amended by inserting, in the part headed Police Department Records, after the item relating to modus operandi, the following item:

“Property	Particulars of—	Police”.
	(a) Property reported to be stolen, missing, or found; and
	(b) Property seized by, or in the possession of, the Police.

(4)

The Schedule to the principal Act is hereby further amended by omitting from the part headed Police Department Records the item relating to stolen/lost property (which appears after the item relating to statistics).

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Wanganui Computer Centre Amendment Act 1983