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Privacy Amendment Act 1993

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Privacy Amendment Act 1993

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Privacy Amendment Act 1993

Public Act
  
1993 No 59
Date of assent
  
30 June 1993
 

Contents

Title
1 Short Title
2 Notice of adverse action proposed
Administrative information

An Act to amend the Privacy Act 1993

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Privacy Amendment Act 1993, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Privacy Act 1993 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Notice of adverse action proposed

(1)

Section 103(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the expression “subsection (2)”, and substituting the expression “subsections (1a) and (2)”.

(2)

Section 103 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1a)

Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall prevent the Department of Social Welfare from immediately suspending a sickness, training, unemployment, independent youth, or emergency benefit, or a job search allowance, paid to an individual where the discrepancy arises in respect of departure information supplied to that Department pursuant to section 305b of the Customs Act 1966, and where, before or immediately after the decision to suspend, the Department gives the individual written notice—

“(a)

Specifying particulars of the discrepancy and the suspension of benefit, and any other adverse action the Department proposes to take; and

“(b)

Stating that the individual has 5 working days from the receipt of the notice to show cause why the benefit ought not to have been suspended or why the adverse action should not be taken, or both—

and the adverse action shall not be taken until the expiration of those 5 working days.”

(3)

Section 103 of the principal Act is hereby amended—

(a)

By inserting in subsection (2), after the expression “subsection (1)”, the expression “or subsection (1a)”:

(b)

By inserting in subsection (3), after the expression “subsection (1)”, the expression “or subsection (1a)”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 30 June 1993 (as enacted)

Privacy Amendment Act 1993

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