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Intelligence and Security Act 2017

Intelligence and security agencies - Functions

11: Protective security services, advice, and assistance

You could also call this:

"Help to keep people and places safe with security services and advice"

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An intelligence and security agency helps keep people and places safe by providing protective security services. You might get these services if you work for a public authority, like a government department, in New Zealand or overseas. The Minister responsible for the agency decides who else can get these services.

The agency can work with other public authorities or people to provide these services. Protective security services include helping develop plans to keep people, information, and places safe. This can involve checking if people are trustworthy to handle secret information, protecting computers from cyber attacks, and making sure buildings are secure.

The agency also helps people develop and implement these safety plans, and gives advice about risks to national security, such as risks related to who is allowed to enter or live in New Zealand, as outlined in legislation like the one found at this link.

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Part 2Intelligence and security agencies
Functions

11Protective security services, advice, and assistance

  1. It is a function of an intelligence and security agency to provide protective security services, advice, and assistance to—

  2. any public authority (whether in New Zealand or overseas); and
    1. any person or class of persons (whether in New Zealand or overseas) authorised by the Minister responsible for the intelligence and security agency to receive the services, advice, and assistance.

      1. An intelligence and security agency may provide protective security services, advice, and assistance to any public authority or person or class of persons under subsection (1) in co-operation with any other such public authority or person or class of persons.

      2. In this section, protective security services, advice, and assistance means—

      3. services and advice relating to developing and implementing protective security arrangements, including arrangements for—
        1. personnel security (for example, security clearance assessments); and
          1. information security (for example, information assurance and cybersecurity activities); and
            1. physical security (for example, making premises secure and protecting classified information); and
            2. assisting with the development and implementation of the arrangements in paragraph (a); and
              1. providing advice about national security risks (for example, national security risks associated with citizenship applications and border security).

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