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1. [2021] NZREADT 24 - Baker v Real Estate Agents Authority (18 May 2021) [pdf, 130 KB]

   ...interests of consumers or the industry would be advanced by publication of Mr Drumm’s name. [8] Ms Davies, on behalf of the Authority, opposes the application. She submitted that while the application requires the Tribunal to balance Mr Drumm’s privacy interests against the public interest in open justice, the starting point should always be the presumption of open justice. She submitted that given the consumer-protection purposes of the Act, it will be proper in most circums...

2. Review of the Firearms Registry - Terms of Reference [pdf, 198 KB]

   ...Schedule 1 B Identifying any issues or improvements to other Arms Regulations provisions Identifying any issues or potential areas for improvements directly associated with the Registry (such as registry education, call centre support and privacy standards) Identifying any issues or improvements to other licensing, import permits and other regulatory approval activities within the Firearms Safety Authority that are not directly associated with the Registry Assessment of fi...

3. BORA New Zealand Security Intelligence Services Amendment Bill [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...(cl 9, new s 4I). • In the advice provided on the Counter-Terrorism Bill in 2002, the former Attorney- General was advised that “the placing of a tracking device on any thing or vehicle constitutes an intrusion on reasonable expectations of privacy that a citizen would have in being able to go about his or her business without electronic observation being made of those movements through the installation and monitoring of tracking device.” We agree with this statement and consider...

4. Factsheet: Convictions in the general population [pdf, 389 KB]

   ...data about a particular person, household, business, or organisation, and the results in this report have been confidentialised to protect these groups from identification and to keep their data safe. Careful consideration has been given to the privacy, security, and confidentiality issues associated with using administrative and survey data in the IDI. Further detail can be found in the privacy impact assessment for the IDI available from www.stats.govt.nz Date published: 29 M...

5. Te-Au-Reka-At-a-glance.pdf [pdf, 487 KB]

   ...modern capability in five key areas: • Online portals - supporting participants to file, pay and track progress. • Logistics management - supporting the right things to occur at the right time. • Content management - supporting management, privacy and access to information • Procedural management - supporting procedural processes, including judicial decisions • Administration management - supporting the activities that underpin court processes TE AU REKA Te A...

6. BORA Education (Social Investment Funding and Abolition of Decile System) Amendment Bill [pdf, 272 KB]

   ...school’s students’ “need indicators” (to be prescribed by regulations), which would indicate students who are at risk of not achieving NCEA Level 2. The Bill also provides for review of the funding distribution based on the needs index, and for privacy matters and regulations. 5. The Bill also exempts information concerning the needs index, and the amount of grants or supplementary grants made under it, from the scheme of the Official Information Act. Consistency of the Bill wi...

7. [2021] NZEnvC 089 Peter Mawhinney (as a Trustee of Waitakere Forest Land Trust and Forest Trust) v Auckland Council [pdf, 235 KB]

   ...and accurate reporting of, and comment on, court hearings and decisions;7 and (d) the freedom to seek, receive and impart information.8 [14] There is a need to strike the correct balance between providing for open justice and protecting the privacy interest of parties. Rule 13 makes it clear that prior to a hearing the importance of public scrutiny is to be afforded less weight, while the protection of the parties’ privacy and the orderly and fair administration of justice i...

8. Terms of Reference for Stat Review Final [pdf, 115 KB]

   ...is to provide the Review Team with advice and feedback about the approach we are taking to the review and is not a substitute to the broader public consultation we intend to conduct. In addition, we will engage with our Treaty Partners and the Privacy Commissioner where issues touch on their respective interests. The Review will also consider the outcome and recommendations of New Zealand’s 2021 Mutual Evaluation conducted by the Financial Action Task Force. The Review wi...

9. BORA Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill [pdf, 275 KB]

   ...not meeting expected standards, and improving the safety and quality of healthcare) and the procedural safeguards around their development, application and review. The Bill’s explicit requirements for naming policies to comply with the information privacy principles in s 6 of the Privacy Act 1993 and the general law, including natural justice rights, bolster this conclusion. Other amendments requiring information to be provided 9. The Bill includes several amendments requiring informa...

10. Gustafson v CAC404 & Chambers [2016] NZREADT 46 [pdf, 119 KB]

    ...course, [the Open Polytechnic] as to what he would learn from this ethics course. [8] The Tribunal have an outline of what the ethics paper covers, it includes “ethics, honesty, fairness and impartiality, consistency of behaviour, rights to privacy, respect of culture, professional integrity and practical applications”. On the facts of this case where Mr Gustafson still seems uncertain about what he did wrong, the Tribunal consider this paper would assist him to better unders...