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Customer and Product Data Bill

Administrative matters - Register

120: Other data holders must provide information to chief executive

You could also call this:

“New data holders must tell the government about themselves”

Under this proposed law, if you become a data holder because of new regulations, you need to tell the chief executive about it. You have to do this within 20 working days of finding out you’re a data holder. You don’t have to do this if you’ve already done it before for the same regulations.

When you tell the chief executive, you need to give them some important information. This includes your name and your New Zealand Business Number. You also need to give them an address in New Zealand where they can send you important papers. You have to tell them which regulations made you a data holder.

The law might ask for more details about you and how to contact you. You’ll need to provide this information too. There might also be other information that needs to go into special registers. If the regulations say you need to give this information, you have to do that as well.

The law might say exactly how you need to give all this information to the chief executive. If it does, you need to follow those instructions.

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Part 5 Administrative matters
Register

120Other data holders must provide information to chief executive

  1. This section applies to a person (A) that is a data holder under designation regulations unless A has previously complied with section 119 in respect of those regulations.

  2. A must, in the manner prescribed by the regulations (if any), provide the following information to the chief executive within 20 working days after it becomes aware that it has become a data holder:

  3. A’s name and New Zealand Business Number:
    1. a physical address for service in New Zealand for A:
      1. the designation regulations in relation to which A is designated:
        1. the identifying information and contact details for A that are prescribed by the regulations:
          1. the information prescribed by the regulations to be included in the register under section 121:
            1. the information prescribed by the regulations to be included in the register under section 122.