450Regulations: reciprocity agreements with mutual assistance provisions, and adverse action if discrepancy shown by information from other country

1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of sections 383 and 386.

2. Regulations made under subsection (1) may (without limitation) do all or any of the following:

3. provide that a reciprocity agreement may contain (instead of, or as well as, any other kind or kinds of mutual assistance provisions) mutual assistance provisions of kinds specified in the regulations:
4. provide that mutual assistance provisions of kinds specified in the regulations may be included in a reciprocity agreement only if those mutual assistance provisions comply with terms and conditions that are, or are equivalent in their effect to, terms and conditions specified in the regulations:
5. provide for the processes to be followed if MSD proposes to take an adverse action against an individual as a result of a discrepancy (for example, a unique identifier discrepancy) produced by information MSD received from the competent institution of the other country under a mutual assistance information exchange provision.

6. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Compare

• 1990 No 26 ss 2(1), 19A(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), 19B, 19C, 19D(3)(c), (d), (4), (4A), (4B), (4C), (5), (6), (7)

Notes

• Section 450(3): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).