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212: Requirements for unresolved warrant notice

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“What a notice about an unresolved warrant tells you and what you need to do”

When you get an unresolved warrant notice, it will tell you some important things. You have 10 working days to do something about it. In those 10 days, you can say that the warrant isn’t for you if there’s been a mistake. Or, you can try to fix the problem that caused the warrant.

The notice will explain how you can tell them it’s not you on the warrant, or how to sort out the warrant if it is for you. It will also tell you what will happen if you don’t deal with the warrant in those 10 days.

If the notice has information from the Ministry of Justice, it might be part of a bigger notice. This bigger notice tells you about actions that might affect you badly.

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Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefit: issue of warrant for beneficiary’s arrest

212Requirements for unresolved warrant notice

  1. An unresolved warrant notice must—

  2. specify a period of 10 working days within which the person to whom the notice is delivered (P) may—
    1. dispute that P is the person to whom the warrant applies; or
      1. take steps to resolve the warrant; and
      2. specify the steps that P may take to dispute that P is the subject of the warrant or to resolve the warrant; and
        1. specify the consequences if P fails to resolve the warrant within the 10-working-day period.

          1. An unresolved warrant notice that involves information supplied by the Ministry of Justice under clause 15 of Schedule 6 may be combined with a notice of adverse action given under section 181(1) of the Privacy Act 2020.

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          • Section 212(2): amended, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).