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1. Phase 2 AML/CFT Reforms - Exposure draft amendment Bill - Information Paper [pdf, 446 KB]

   ...are developed and the guidance produced by the AML/CFT regulators (known as Supervisors), and participate in information roadshows and training. Personal information and confidentiality We will hold your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993. We accept submissions made in confidence or anonymously. Please clearly indicate if you want your submission to be treated as confidential. We may be asked to release submissions in accordance with the Official Information...

2. Submissions Analysis of the Exposure Draft Amendment Bill for Phase 2 of the AML/CFT Reforms [pdf, 8 MB]

   ...submission. One of these submissions was received before the analysis stage and was incorporated into the report. The other three submissions were received too late to incorporate into the analysis and the report, however the submission made by the Privacy Commissioner was considered by The Ministry of Justice. 7 Phase 2 businesses and professions The following summarises submitters’ comments about the businesses and professions that will be subject to the AML/CFT Act through...

3. OIA-116775 [pdf, 5.3 MB]

   ...information is publicly available or will soon be publicly available. Note that some of the information has been marked out of scope and some of the information has been withheld under the following sections of the Act: • 9(2)(a) to protect the privacy of natural persons, • 9(2)(d) to avoid prejudice to the substantial economic interests of New Zealand, and • 9(2)(f)(iv) to maintain the constitutional conventions that protect confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministe...

4. 2017 Ministry of Justice Annual Report [pdf, 3.7 MB]

   ...the Ministerial Group on Family Violence and Sexual Violence which is tasked with addressing New Zealand’s unacceptable rates of family and sexual violence. Find out more about our contribution to this work on pages 12 to 15. • Ensuring our privacy law, and in particular information sharing between public protection agencies, has the clarity required and is fit for purpose in a digital world. This year, we drafted a new Privacy Bill and worked with the Office of the Privacy Co...

5. Proactive release - Second Interim Regulatory Impact Statement: Consultation options for adoption law reform [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   Regulatory Impact Statement | 1 Interim Regulatory Impact Statement: Consultation options for adoption law reform Quality Assurance (completed by QA panel) Reviewing Agency/Agencies: Ministry of Justice Panel Assessment & Comment: The Ministry of Justice's RIA QA panel has reviewed the Interim Regulatory Impact Statement: A New Adoption System for New Zealand (Interim RIS) prepared by the Ministry of Justice and considers that the information and analysis s

6. [2022] NZEmpC 107 JKL v Stirling Andersen Ltd [pdf, 272 KB]

   ...[49] Further, the plaintiff’s concern about their mental health is also reasonable. I consider that there is a material risk that their mental health will decline if their name is published or if details which they perceive as violating their privacy are published. Although embarrassment alone is not sufficient as an adverse consequence, if it can be shown that this embarrassment and shame will lead to poor mental health outcomes, this can be sufficient as an adverse consequence....

7. Napier v Registrar of the Real Estate Agents Authority [2019] NZREADT 7 (25 Feb 2019) [pdf, 264 KB]

   ...[29] Ms Goatley went on to submit that there is no proper basis for any restriction on publication. She submitted that the subject matter leading to the proceedings before the Tribunal is largely in the public domain, such that there is no privacy interest which is sufficient to outweigh the starting point of open justice. [30] Finally, Ms Goatley submitted that it is not for the Tribunal to make orders on the basis of concerns as to what NZME might publish. She submitted tha...

8. Chief Executive Expenses: 1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021 [xlsx, 75 KB]

   ...apply and therefore all items are disclosed, unless there is a very good reason not to. The Ombudsman’s view is that "because this expenditure is incurred by very senior employees acting in an official capacity and for a business purpose, the privacy interests of the chief executives who incurred the expenditure are low". Gifts and benefits All gifts, invitations to events and other hospitality, of $50 or more in total value per year, accepted or declined by the CE from people ext...

9. BORA Customs And Excise Amendment Bill [pdf, 419 KB]

   ...maximising the limited resources available and ensuring that agencies work together towards the government’s border outcomes rather than focusing on limited classes of border activity. We consider, however, that despite the fact that expectations of privacy are lower in the context of border control, there should still be appropriate safeguards in place to ensure that the right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure is respected. Such safeguards exist in connection with new s...

10. BORA Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Continuation and Reform) Amendment Bill [pdf, 425 KB]

    ...to the effect that it reserves the right to award compensation to victims of torture only at the Attorney-General’s discretion. 11. Note however that the Bill of Rights Act does not protect a right to an effective remedy for interferences with privacy or tortious conduct which is not also inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. 12. Wilding v Attorney-General [2003] 3 NZLR 787 (CA) at [14]ff; Dunlea v Attorney- General [2000] 3 NZLR 136 (CA); Attorney-General v Chapman [2011] NZSC 11...