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Commerce Act 1986

Miscellaneous provisions - Power to share information and documents with public service agencies, statutory entities, Reserve Bank, and New Zealand Police

99AB: Commission may impose conditions on provision of information or documents

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"The Commission can add rules when sharing information with organisations to keep personal details safe."

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The Commission can add rules when giving information or documents to some organisations. You need to know that these organisations include public service agencies, statutory entities, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and the New Zealand Police. The Commission thinks about whether these rules are necessary to protect someone's privacy.

When the Commission decides on these rules, they consider things like keeping personal information secret, which is explained in the Privacy Act 2020. The rules can also be about how the organisations store, use, or access the information, or what they do with copies of documents.

The Commission can also ask the organisations to pay for the costs of giving them the information. This rule does not change what is said in section 100.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions
Power to share information and documents with public service agencies, statutory entities, Reserve Bank, and New Zealand Police

99ABCommission may impose conditions on provision of information or documents

  1. The Commission may impose any conditions in relation to providing information, or a copy of a document, to a public service agency, a statutory entity, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, or the New Zealand Police (whether provided in compliance with a request or otherwise).

  2. The Commission must, in considering what conditions to impose, have regard to whether conditions are necessary or desirable in order to protect the privacy of any individual.

  3. The conditions may include, without limitation, conditions relating to—

  4. maintaining the confidentiality of anything provided (in particular, information that is personal information within the meaning of the Privacy Act 2020):
    1. the storing of, the use of, or access to anything provided:
      1. the copying, returning, or disposing of copies of documents provided:
        1. payment of the costs incurred by the Commission in providing anything or in generally complying with a request.

          1. This section does not limit section 100.

          Notes
          • Section 99AB: inserted, on , by section 42 of the Commerce Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 11).