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Customer and Product Data Bill

Administrative matters - Miscellaneous

138: Chief executive’s warnings, reports, guidelines, or comments protected by qualified privilege

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“Chief executive can share important job information without getting in trouble”

This part of the proposed law is about protecting the chief executive when they share important information. It says that when the chief executive gives warnings, makes reports, provides guidelines, or makes comments as part of their job, these will be treated in a special way.

The law would treat these things as if they were official reports made by someone doing an inquiry for the New Zealand Parliament. This means the chief executive would have something called ‘qualified privilege’ when they share this information.

Qualified privilege is a legal protection that helps people do their jobs without worrying too much about being sued for what they say. It’s a way to make sure the chief executive can share important information freely when they need to.

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Part 5 Administrative matters
Miscellaneous

138Chief executive’s warnings, reports, guidelines, or comments protected by qualified privilege

  1. For the purposes of clause 3 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Defamation Act 1992, any warning, report, guideline, or comment issued or made by the chief executive in the course of the performance or intended performance of their functions must be treated as an official report made by a person holding an inquiry under the authority of the Parliament of New Zealand.