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112B: Application for contact information
or “How to ask for a person's contact details when they owe you money from a court decision”
You could also call this:

“When the boss sends a request to find someone's contact details to help enforce a decision”

If you need help finding someone’s contact information to enforce a Tenancy Tribunal order, you can ask the chief executive for help. The chief executive will check if you’ve filled out the application form correctly, paid any fees, and attached a copy of the order. They’ll also make sure you’ve tried to find the person’s contact information yourself first.

If the chief executive thinks a government agency might be able to help, they’ll send your application to that agency. The agency will then search their databases to try and find the person’s contact information.

After searching, the agency will tell the chief executive what they found. If they find the person’s contact information, they’ll give it to the chief executive. If they can’t find any information, or if they think the person might have died, they’ll let the chief executive know that too.

This process is part of the section 112B of the law, which is about getting contact information to enforce Tenancy Tribunal orders.

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Next up: 112D: Response to applicant

or “The chief executive tells you what happened with your request for information about the person who owes you money.”
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Part 3 The Tenancy Tribunal
Contact information for enforcement purposes

112CApplication referred to specified agency

  1. The chief executive must refer an application under section 112B to a specified agency if—

  2. the application is properly completed, any prescribed fee is paid, and a copy of the relevant order is attached; and
    1. the chief executive is satisfied that the applicant has, before making the application, made reasonable efforts to find contact information about the judgment debtor; and
      1. the chief executive believes on reasonable grounds that a search by a specified agency may find contact information about the judgment debtor that may assist in the enforcement of the Tribunal order.

        1. A specified agency that receives an application forwarded by the chief executive must search its specified databases in order to find contact information that relates to the judgment debtor identified in the application.

        2. After searching its specified databases, the specified agency must,—

        3. if it finds contact information about the judgment debtor, forward it to the chief executive; or
          1. if it does not find contact information about the judgment debtor, or if it believes that the judgment debtor is dead, advise the chief executive of that fact.

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