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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Procedural, administrative, and miscellaneous matters - Matters relating to management or administration - Residence management contracts

136: Release of resident information to and by contract residences

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"Sharing information about you when you live in a contract residence"

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When you live in a contract residence, the people in charge of the residence or the government department can look at information about you or the residence. This is so they can do their jobs properly. The information they can look at is anything that is held by the residence or the department, and it must be related to you or the residence. The government department can look at information held by the contract residence, and the staff at the contract residence can look at information held by the department. If a law says the department can look at or share information about you, then the staff at the contract residence can also look at or share that information, and the chief executive can ask them to do so, as explained in the Official Information Act 1982.

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Matters relating to management or administration: Residence management contracts

136Release of resident information to and by contract residences

  1. For the purposes of enabling the chief executive or any staff member of the department to exercise or perform any of his or her powers, duties, or functions, the chief executive or any staff member of the department may access any information that is held (or deemed for the purposes of the Official Information Act 1982 to be held) by a contract residence and that relates to that contract residence or to any resident.

  2. For the purposes of enabling any staff member of a contract residence to exercise or perform any of his or her powers, duties, or functions, any staff member of a contract residence may have access to any information that is held (or deemed for the purposes of the Official Information Act 1982 to be held) by the department and that relates to any resident.

  3. If the department is authorised by any enactment to access or to disclose information relating to any resident,—

  4. a staff member of a contract residence is authorised to access or disclose that information as if the contract residence were a part of the department; and
    1. the chief executive may require the contractor to access or disclose that information.

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