Restricted access to information stored electronically on a smartcard identification authority
28EG Restricted access to information stored electronically on a smartcard identification authority
A person may access information stored electronically on a smartcard identification authority only if—
the person is the holder of the smartcard identification authority; or
the person has the holder’s consent to access the information; or
the person is an authorised officer for the smartcard identification authority and the access to the information is for exercising a power under the Act under which the smartcard identification authority is granted;
the person is a police officer who is authorised under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 to access the information.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
In this section—
access, in relation to information stored electronically on a smartcard identification authority, means view or take a copy of the information.
authorised officer, for a smartcard identification authority, means a person—
authorised, under an Act, to perform a function or exercise a power in relation to the smartcard identification authority; and
prescribed under a regulation for this definition.
smartcard identification authority means a prescribed authority in the form of a card, or something similar, that is approved by the administrator of the prescribed authorisation Act under which the authority is issued and on which information may be stored electronically.
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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