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1. Summary of feedback on Adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand Discussion document [pdf, 227 KB]

   ...certificates post-adoption, and the original is sealed away. However, there were different views on what an alternative should look like. While very few submitters supported keeping the status quo, the rationale for the approach under the status quo (such as privacy and recognising new relationships) were raised occasionally. 72. The most common themes raised were the importance of identity, ending the legal fiction created whereby adopted peoples’ birth certificates mean they appear t...

2. [2022] NZIACDT 16 GX v Registrar (5 July 2022) [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...using tax residence to qualify for permanent residence in New Zealand. The adviser provided general information about achieving tax residence status. [6] On 14 November 2019, the appellant gave written authority (expressed to be under the “Privacy / Official Information Acts”) to [Accounting company] to act on his behalf in relation to tax matters. [7] In a text on the same day, the appellant asked the adviser if he could pay him in person as he was not comfortable with a...

3. NZCVS Evaluation Final Summary Report.pdf [pdf, 460 KB]

   ...given by respondents. 46. Specify that interviewers only do self-completion in exceptional circumstances. 28. Create an ‘escape’ button in the self- completion module. • Generates more consistent data. • Increases focus on privacy. • Minimises risk of harm when privacy is breached during self-completion. • NZCVS team have not conducted empirical investigations into alternative data collection modes. 63. A portion of NZCVR should be set aside to c...

4. LCRO 13/2023 DG v PS (26 February 2025) [pdf, 195 KB]

   ...important consideration which must be taken into account when considering such matters. Baragwanath J in that case also identified that values of public education and alerting to risk are related and also of significance. His honour also recognised the privacy interests of the practitioner complained against. [103] The LCRO has issued guidelines on publication. Factors to be considered include: (a) the extent to which publication would provide protection to the public including cons...

5. Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill [pdf, 218 KB]

   ...Expected Impacts 12. Enable the person being searched to reasonably request a different court security officer undertake the search if another officer is available. Provide more flexibility to the person being searched to be afforded dignity, privacy, respect, and sensitivity. Increase operational flexibility. The Ministry is not always able to provide same sex security officers for females needing to undergo an external examination of their clothes before entering a co...

6. Proactive-Release-Administration-Act_FINAL-v2.pdf [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...Cabinet Office Circular CO (23) 4. No information has been withheld. No. Document Comments 1. Review of the probate threshold and Some information withheld under section (9)(2)(a) statutory legacy threshold under the of the Act to the protect the privacy of Natural Administration Act 1969 persons Briefing Ministry of Justice 23 April 2025 2. Increasing the threshold for requiring Released in full probate and letters of administration Letter Hon David Seymour 19 May 2025 3...

7. New Zealands all-of-Government response to organised crime [pdf, 413 KB]

   ...regulatory responsibilities and industry sectors. Information sharing between domestic law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and between the public and private sectors, can be critical to the detection and investigation of criminal activity. The Privacy Act allows domestic agencies to share between them personal information for the maintenance of the law. Other laws allow for information sharing between regulatory and law enforcement agencies. However, legislated provisions c...

8. BORA Policing Bill [pdf, 415 KB]

   ...leisure interests and beliefs, all serve to single him out from the rest of the population. But to allow the collection of information of that kind under pain of legal penalty for non-disclosure would constitute a substantial intrusion on personal privacy; and to allow for inquiry into a man's past might, in some cases, require him to incriminate himself. It could never have been contemplated by Parliament that s 57 would be taken to empower the police to compile a dossier of that kin...

9. Proactive release - Prisoner Voting [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...information from a police officer or corrections officer). 6. For prisoners, the address to be recorded on the electoral roll will usually be the address they resided at prior to imprisonment. Publishing this address on the public roll may raise privacy and safety concerns if their family or a victim of their offending reside at this address. 7. In practice, most prisoners would already satisfy the test for being placed on the unpublished roll. However, making this amendment in th...

10. LCRO 148/2020 PV v GY (31 May 2021) [pdf, 269 KB]

    ...against him; and (d) it was in Ms CB’s interests that her health records were not disclosed as she did not wish for her ex-partner to have access to the records; and (e) disclosure of the records was a generally unwanted intrusion into her privacy; and (f) Ms CB’s motivation to prevent disclosure of her medical records was advanced for her own interests, independent of the interests of Mr RS; and (g) Ms CB was not a reluctant complainant; she was not a complainant at all;...