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Privacy Act 2020

Information privacy principles and codes of practice - Information privacy principles

24: Relationships between IPPs and other New Zealand law

You could also call this:

“How other New Zealand laws can affect privacy rules”

You should know that some rules about privacy in New Zealand can be overridden by other laws. For example, IPP 6, 11, and 12 don’t limit or affect other New Zealand laws that allow or require personal information to be shared. These laws can also stop personal information from being shared or control how it’s collected or shared.

If a New Zealand law says an agency can or must do something, the agency won’t be breaking IPPs 1 to 5, 7 to 10, or 13 by doing it. This means that sometimes, other laws are more important than these privacy rules.

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Part 3 Information privacy principles and codes of practice
Information privacy principles

24Relationships between IPPs and other New Zealand law

  1. Nothing in IPP 6, 11, or 12 limits or affects—

  2. a provision contained in any New Zealand enactment that authorises or requires personal information to be made available; or
    1. a provision contained in any other New Zealand Act that—
      1. imposes a prohibition or restriction in relation to the availability of personal information; or
        1. regulates the manner in which personal information may be obtained or made available.

        2. An action taken by an agency does not breach IPPs 1 to 5, 7 to 10, or 13 if the action is authorised or required by or under New Zealand law.

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