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213: Regulations: prescribed binding schemes
or “Rules for approving overseas schemes that protect your personal information”
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“Rules for sharing personal information with other countries”

The Governor-General can make rules about which countries are safe to share your personal information with. These rules are called regulations. The Minister in charge of privacy has to suggest these rules, but only after talking to the Privacy Commissioner.

The Minister can only suggest a country if they think that country has privacy laws that are about as good as New Zealand’s laws. This helps to keep your information safe when it’s sent to other countries.

When making these rules, the government can be specific about which people or companies in other countries can receive your information. They can also say what types of personal information can be shared.

These regulations are a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they have to follow certain rules about how they’re made public.

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Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions
Regulations

214Regulations: prescribed countries

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the responsible Minister given after consultation with the Commissioner, make regulations prescribing countries for the purpose of IPP 12(1)(e).

  2. The Minister may recommend the making of regulations under subsection (1) only if the Minister is satisfied that the countries have privacy laws that, overall, provide comparable safeguards to those in this Act.

  3. A country may be prescribed subject to any specified limitation or qualification relating to—

  4. the type of foreign person or entity in that country that personal information may be disclosed to:
    1. the type of personal information that may be disclosed to a foreign person or entity in that country.

      1. Regulations made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 214(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 214(4): amended, on , by regulation 85 of the Legislation Act (Amendments to Legislation) Regulations 2021 (SL 2021/247).