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Residential Tenancies Act 1986

The Tenancy Tribunal - Contact information for enforcement purposes

112A: Interpretation

You could also call this:

“This explains what important words mean in the rules about finding people who owe money.”

In this part of the law, you’ll learn about some important terms used when talking about enforcing Tribunal orders. These terms are used in sections 112B to 112F of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.

Contact information is information that can help find people who owe money because of a Tribunal order. This information is kept by certain government departments. The Secretary for Justice decides what types of information can be used to find these people.

A judgment debtor is someone who has to pay money to another person because a Tribunal order says so. The person who is supposed to receive the money is called the judgment creditor.

There are three specified agencies mentioned in this law: the department (which isn’t named specifically), the Ministry of Social Development, and the Ministry of Justice.

A specified database is a computer system run by one of these agencies. The government can make rules about which databases can be used to find information about judgment debtors.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM3285736.

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Contact information for enforcement purposes

112AInterpretation

  1. In this section and in sections 112B to 112F,—

    contact information means information that is—

    1. held or supplied by a specified agency; and
      1. about a judgment debtor named in a Tribunal order; and
        1. of a type that the Secretary for Justice has, by notice in the Gazette, identified as being information that is likely to assist in locating judgment debtors for the purpose of enforcing Tribunal orders

          judgment debtor means a person who is required under a Tribunal order to pay money to the judgment creditor named in the order

            specified agency means any of the following:

            1. the department:
              1. the Ministry of Social Development:
                1. the Ministry of Justice

                  specified database means a database operated by a specified agency and prescribed by regulation as a specified database for the purposes of section 112C(2).

                  Notes
                  • Section 112A: inserted, on , by section 75 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).