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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of injury-related information

289: Information manager

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“Person chosen to handle injury information and make rules about it”

The Prime Minister can choose a person or agency to manage injury-related information. This manager reports to a minister picked by the Prime Minister.

The manager has powers to do their job well. They can create and publish rules about injury information after talking to relevant people. They can collect and combine injury information, make it easy for people to access, and think about what information might be needed in the future.

The manager can share injury information with other government agencies or private researchers, but only if it’s for research or statistics. The information must not identify individuals unless it’s approved by an ethics committee.

When using their powers, the manager must follow privacy laws and codes. They must also make sure everyone follows the rules they set. The manager can ask someone else to do their job for them.

If Statistics New Zealand is chosen as the manager, some of these rules don’t apply. Instead, they follow their own laws about data and statistics.

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Part 8 Management of injury-related information

289Information manager

  1. The Prime Minister may designate a person or agency to be an information manager for injury-related information purposes.

  2. A manager must report to a Minister designated by the Prime Minister.

  3. A manager has all the powers that are reasonably necessary or expedient to enable the manager to carry out the purpose of this Part, including (without limitation) power to exercise or perform the following functions:

  4. to develop, set, publish, and maintain standards for the purpose of this Part after consultation with such persons or organisations as the manager considers appropriate:
    1. to collect and aggregate injury-related information:
      1. to facilitate access (including by publishing) to injury-related information and unit record data:
        1. to consider and review current and future injury-related information requirements.

          1. The manager may disclose injury-related information to any officer of another government agency solely for bona fide research or statistical purposes relevant to the functions and duties of that government agency, and to bona fide private sector researchers, only if—

          2. the information is to be used in a form in which the individual concerned is not identified; or
            1. the information is to be used for statistical purposes and will not be published in a form that could reasonably be expected to identify the individual concerned; or
              1. the information is to be used for research purposes for which approval by an ethics committee, if required, has been given and will not be published in a form that could reasonably be expected to identify the individual concerned.

                1. Information may be provided under subsection (4) in a form determined by an agreement between the manager and the chief executive of the government agency or the bona fide researcher.

                2. In exercising the powers conferred by subsection (3), a manager must—

                3. comply with the Privacy Act 2020 and the Health Information Privacy Code and any other codes issued under that Act; and
                  1. ensure that standards set for the purpose of this Part are complied with; and
                    1. comply with the Data and Statistics Act 2022.

                      1. A manager may delegate any of the manager's functions.

                      2. If Statistics New Zealand is designated as an information manager,—

                      3. subsections (2) to (7) and sections 290 and 292 do not apply; but
                        1. nothing in this section limits or affects anything in the Data and Statistics Act 2022.

                          Notes
                          • Section 289(6)(a): amended, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).
                          • Section 289(6)(c): amended, on , by section 107(1) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022 (2022 No 39).
                          • Section 289(8)(b): amended, on , by section 107(1) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022 (2022 No 39).