This law aims to protect your privacy when it comes to your personal information. It sets up rules to make sure you have the right to keep your personal information private. It also gives you the right to see and access your own personal information when you want to.
The law recognises that sometimes there might be other important things to think about besides privacy. It tries to balance your privacy rights with other rights and interests that might be important too.
This law also helps New Zealand follow privacy rules that many countries around the world agree on. It matches up with guidelines from an organisation called the OECD and an agreement called the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. These international rules are all about keeping personal information private and secure.
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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS23193.
1: Title, or
“Name of this privacy law”
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
