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Biosecurity Act 1993

Administrative provisions - Biosecurity database

142B: Information from local authorities

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"Local councils must share certain information with the government for free"

When information comes from a local authority's database, as required by the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002, and it is the kind described in section 142A(3), you need to know what happens to it. You will get this information from the local authority, and they must give it to the Director-General for the biosecurity database. The local authority must provide the information for free, except for the cost of transferring it.

The local authority must give the information to the Director-General according to a timetable they set, or when the Director-General asks for it. The Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 does not stop local authorities from following this rule. You can find more about this in the laws that govern local authorities and biosecurity.

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Part 6Administrative provisions
Biosecurity database

142BInformation from local authorities

  1. This section applies to information to which both the following apply:

  2. it comes from the database that is required to be kept by a local authority under section 27 of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002; and
    1. it is of a kind described in section 142A(3).

      1. Local authorities must provide the information, or make it available,—

      2. to the Director-General; and
        1. for inclusion in the biosecurity database; and
          1. either—
            1. in accordance with a timetable set by the Director-General; or
              1. when the Director-General requires its provision or availability; and
              2. free of any charge except the actual and reasonable costs of transferring the information.

                1. The Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 does not prevent a local authority from complying with this section.

                Notes
                • Section 142B: inserted, on , by section 59 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).