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22: Information privacy principles
or “Rules for how organisations must handle personal information”
You could also call this:

“Privacy rules for overseas information storage”

If you hold information in another country, you don’t have to follow New Zealand’s Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) if that country’s laws say you must do something different. This means that if the laws of the other country tell you to do something with the information, and it’s not what the IPPs say, you won’t get in trouble for following the other country’s laws.

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Next up: 24: Relationships between IPPs and other New Zealand law

or “How other New Zealand laws can affect privacy rules”
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Part 3 Information privacy principles and codes of practice
Information privacy principles

23Application of IPPs in relation to information held overseas

  1. An action taken by an agency in relation to information held overseas does not breach any of the IPPs if the action is required by or under the law of any country other than New Zealand.

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