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Limited Partnerships Act 2008
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66: When search breaches information privacy principle

Part 1:
Preliminary provisions

3Purpose of Act 4Interpretation 5Act binds the Crown

Part 2:
General

Part 3:
Overseas limited partnerships

104Overseas limited partnership must register 105Meaning of carrying on business 106Validity of transactions not affected 107Application for registration 108Registration of overseas limited partnership 109Use of name by overseas limited partnership 110Notification of changes relating to overseas limited partnership 111Rectification or correction of name or address of person authorised to accept service 112Annual return of overseas limited partnership 113Overseas limited partnership ceasing to carry on business in New Zealand 114Liquidation of overseas limited partnership

Part 4:
Miscellaneous

115Confidentiality of limited partner information 116Regulations 116AValidation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc 117Part 2 of Partnership Act 1908 repealed 118Orders revoked 119Companies Act 1993 amended 120Privacy Act 1993 amended 121Other consequential amendments 122Transitional provision for special partnerships

Schedule 1:
Activities that do not constitute taking part in management of limited partnership

Schedule 2:
Information to be contained in annual return

Limited Partnerships Act 2008

General - Registers of limited partnerships

66: When search breaches information privacy principle

You could also call this:

"Searching a register for the wrong reason can breach privacy rules"

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If you search a register for a reason that is not allowed under section 65, you will be treated as if you broke an information privacy principle. This is for the purposes of Parts 5 and 6 of the Privacy Act 2020. You will be treated as if you broke the principle under section 69(2)(a)(i) of that Act.

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65: Search purposes, or

"Why you can look up information on a limited partnership"

67: Registered office, or

"A limited partnership's main office address in New Zealand that you can find on the register."

Part 2General
Registers of limited partnerships

66When search breaches information privacy principle

A person who searches a register for a purpose that is not a purpose set out in section 65 must be treated, for the purposes of Parts 5 and 6 of the Privacy Act 2020, as having breached an information privacy principle under section 69(2)(a)(i) of that Act.

Notes

Section 66: replaced, on 1 December 2020, by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).