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Biosecurity Act 1993

Administrative provisions - Biosecurity database

142A: Establishment

You could also call this:

"Setting up a database to help keep New Zealand's environment safe"

The Director-General can create and maintain a biosecurity database with information about land. You can think of this database as a collection of information that helps keep New Zealand's environment safe. The database can be in any form, like electronic, and it must be easy to access and use.

The database can store information like the legal description of the land, its valuation, land use, and the owner's and occupier's names and contact details. It can also contain other useful information about the land that the Director-General thinks is important. The information in the database can come from public sources, or from people who provide it voluntarily.

The Director-General can get information from various sources, such as what is publicly available, as defined in section 142C(7), or from people who give it freely. The database can also have information that the Director-General or the Ministry gets from other laws. If information is in the database because it was provided under another law, it does not change how that information is handled according to the other law.

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Part 6Administrative provisions
Biosecurity database

142AEstablishment

  1. The Director-General may establish and maintain a biosecurity database containing information about land for the purposes of this Act.

  2. The database may be in any form that the Director-General thinks fit, including an electronic form that—

  3. records or stores information electronically; and
    1. permits the information to be readily inspected; and
      1. permits the information to be readily reproduced; and
        1. permits the information to be accessed by remote log-on access or any other electronic means.

          1. The database may record all or some of the following information about land:

          2. legal description:
            1. valuation:
              1. land use:
                1. the name and contact details of the owner:
                  1. the name and contact details of the occupier.

                    1. The database may contain any other information about land that the Director-General considers useful.

                    2. The information in the database may come from any source, such as—

                    3. information that is publicly available, as defined in section 142C(7):
                      1. information provided voluntarily for inclusion in the database by a person to whom the information relates or by the person's agent:
                        1. information provided or made available to the Director-General or the Ministry under this Act or any other enactment.

                          1. The fact that information is in the biosecurity database because it is provided or made available to the Director-General or the Ministry under another enactment does not affect any provisions in the other enactment relating to the handling of the information.

                          Notes
                          • Section 142A: inserted, on , by section 59 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).
                          • Section 142A(5)(a): amended, on , by section 6 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 8).