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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Monitoring and enforcement - Authority's powers and procedures

47B: Authority may impose conditions on provision of information or documents

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“Rules for sharing information with other groups to keep your details safe”

When the Authority gives information or documents to other organisations, they can set rules about how this is done. These organisations could be government agencies, other official groups, or regulators from other countries.

The Authority thinks about whether these rules are needed to keep people’s personal information safe. They try to protect your privacy when they share information.

The rules can cover different things. For example, they might say:

  • The information must be kept secret, especially if it’s about a person.
  • There are specific ways to store the information and control who can see it.
  • What to do with copies of the documents, like how to return or get rid of them.
  • The organisation might have to pay the Authority for the cost of providing the information.

The Authority can make these rules whether someone has asked for the information or if they’re giving it out for another reason.

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Part 2 Electricity industry governance
Monitoring and enforcement: Authority's powers and procedures

47BAuthority may impose conditions on provision of information or documents

  1. The Authority may impose any conditions in relation to providing information, or a copy of a document, to a public service agency, a statutory entity, the gas industry body, or an overseas regulator (whether provided in compliance with a request or otherwise).

  2. The Authority must, in considering what conditions to impose, have regard to whether conditions are necessary or desirable in order to protect the privacy of any individual.

  3. The conditions may include, without limitation, conditions relating to—

  4. maintaining the confidentiality of anything provided (in particular, information that is personal information within the meaning of the Privacy Act 2020):
    1. the storing of, the use of, or access to anything provided:
      1. the copying, returning, or disposing of copies of documents provided:
        1. payment of the costs incurred by the Authority in providing anything or in generally complying with a request.

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          • Section 47B: inserted, on , by section 23 of the Electricity Industry Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 46).