Biosecurity Act 1993

Administrative provisions - Automated electronic systems

142F: Arrangement for system

You could also call this:

"The Director-General can use a computer system to help make decisions and do tasks allowed by the Biosecurity Act 1993."

The Director-General can arrange for a computer system to do certain tasks that the law allows or requires people to do. You might be wondering what kind of tasks - they include making decisions, carrying out duties, and exercising powers. The Director-General can only use the system if they are sure it works reliably and that people affected by the system's decisions can have them reviewed quickly.

The people who can do these tasks include the Director-General, inspectors, and authorised persons. The system can even be used to analyse information about people, goods, or craft, and apply criteria to make decisions. If the system makes a decision, it can also communicate that decision to the people affected.

The Director-General must make sure that the system is reliable and that people can have decisions reviewed. They must also consult the Privacy Commissioner if the system will be collecting or using personal information. The system can include parts that are outside New Zealand, and the Director-General made this arrangement as part of the Biosecurity Act 1993, which was amended by the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012.

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Part 6Administrative provisions
Automated electronic systems

142FArrangement for system

  1. The Director-General may arrange for the use of an automated electronic system to do the actions described in subsection (2) that this Act or another enactment allows or requires the persons described in subsection (3) to do.

  2. The actions are—

  3. exercising a power:
    1. carrying out a function:
      1. carrying out a duty:
        1. making a decision, including making a decision by—
          1. analysing information that the Director-General holds or has access to about a person, goods, or craft; and
            1. applying criteria predetermined by the Director-General to the analysis:
            2. doing an action for the purpose of exercising a power, carrying out a function or duty, or making a decision:
              1. communicating the exercising of a power, carrying out of a function or duty, or making of a decision.
                1. The persons are—

                2. the Director-General:
                  1. inspectors:
                    1. chief technical officers:
                      1. authorised persons:
                        1. accredited persons:
                          1. assistants of inspectors or authorised persons.
                            1. The Director-General may make an arrangement only if satisfied that—

                            2. the system has the capacity to do the action with reasonable reliability; and
                              1. a process is available under which a person affected by an action done by the system can have the action reviewed by a person described in subsection (3) without undue delay.
                                1. A system used in accordance with an arrangement may include components outside New Zealand.

                                2. The Director-General must consult the Privacy Commissioner about including in an arrangement actions that involve the collection or use of personal information.

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