Civil Aviation Act 2023

Regulations and miscellaneous provisions - Other miscellaneous provisions - Information sharing by CAA

466: Sharing of information between CAA, designated agencies, and overseas agencies

You could also call this:

"The CAA can share information with other agencies to help keep people safe when they fly."

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) can share information with other agencies in New Zealand and overseas. You can think of the CAA like a team that helps keep people safe when they fly. The CAA can give information to these agencies if it will help them do their jobs better.

The CAA can also use information it gets from other agencies to help it do its job. When the CAA shares information, it can say how the information should be stored and used.

Some of the agencies the CAA can share information with are the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Transport Agency, and the Ministry of Health. The CAA can also share information with agencies in other countries if they do similar work. The CAA is allowed to share this information even if there are other rules that say it shouldn't.

You might see some new words like "EPA" which stands for Environmental Protection Authority, or "local authority" which means a council. There are also rules about what a "medical officer of health" is, which is someone who helps keep people healthy. An "overseas agency" is an organisation in another country that does similar work to the CAA. You can find out more about some of these terms in laws like the Environmental Protection Authority Act 2011, the Local Government Act 2002, or the Health Act 1956.

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Part 10Regulations and miscellaneous provisions
Other miscellaneous provisions: Information sharing by CAA

466Sharing of information between CAA, designated agencies, and overseas agencies

  1. The CAA may, subject to any legislation, provide a designated agency or an overseas agency with any information, or a copy of any document, that it—

  2. holds in relation to the performance or exercise of its functions, duties, or powers under or in relation to civil aviation legislation; and
    1. considers may assist, as the case may be,—
      1. the designated agency in the performance or exercise of the designated agency’s functions, duties, or powers under or in relation to any legislation; or
        1. the overseas agency in the performance or exercise of the overseas agency’s functions, powers, or duties under foreign law.
        2. The CAA may use any information, or a copy of any document, provided to it by a designated agency under any legislation, or by an overseas agency, in the CAA’s performance or exercise of its functions, powers, or duties under civil aviation legislation.

        3. The CAA (when providing information or a document under subsection (1)) or a designated agency (when providing information or a document as referred to in subsection (2)) may impose conditions that it thinks fit relating to the provision of the information or document, including conditions relating to—

        4. the storage and use of, or access to, anything provided:
          1. the copying, returning, or disposing of copies of any documents provided.
            1. This section applies despite anything to the contrary in any contract, deed, or document.

            2. In this section,—

              designated agency means any of the following:

              1. the New Zealand Police:
                1. the New Zealand Transport Agency:
                  1. the New Zealand Customs Service:
                    1. the Ministry for Primary Industries:
                      1. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade:
                        1. the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment, including any statutory officer who carries out work for that ministry:
                          1. the Ministry of Health:
                            1. the Ministry of Transport:
                              1. Maritime New Zealand:
                                1. the EPA:
                                  1. a local authority:
                                    1. Fire and Emergency New Zealand:
                                      1. a designated agency under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015:
                                        1. a medical examiner appointed under this Act:
                                          1. a medical officer of health:
                                            1. WorkSafe New Zealand:
                                              1. any other agency specified as a designated agency for the purpose of this section by the regulations

                                                EPA means the Environmental Protection Authority established by section 7 of the Environmental Protection Authority Act 2011

                                                  local authority has the same meaning as in section 5(1) of the Local Government Act 2002

                                                    medical officer of health

                                                    1. has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Health Act 1956; and
                                                      1. includes the officers referred to in section 22 of that Act

                                                        overseas agency means an organisation in another country or territory that performs functions that correspond with, or are similar to, any of those conferred on the CAA.