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Customs and Excise (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill Government Bill As reported from the committee of the whole House This bill was formerly part of the Social Assistance (Debt Preven­ tion and Minimisation) Amendment Bill as reported from the Social Services Committee.
The committee of the whole House has further amended the bill and has divided it into the following bills: • Corrections (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill comprising clauses 1 and 2, and Part 1 This bill comprising subpart 1 of Part 2 Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill comprising subpart 2 of Part 2 • • 134—3B Hon Ruth Dyson Customs and Excise (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill Government Bill Contents 1 2 8 9 10 Title Commencement ∙ Principal Act amended Purpose of this subpart Supply of arrival and departure information for beneﬁt purposes ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ Page 1 1 2 2 2 ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: 1 2 Title This Act is the Customs and Excise (Social Assistance) Amendment Act 2008.
Commencement This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which 5 it receives the Royal assent.

∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ 134—3B 1 cl 8 8 9 10 (1) (2) Customs and Excise (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill Principal Act amended This subpart amends the Customs and Excise Act 1996.
Purpose of this subpart The purpose of this subpart is to amend the principal Act so that the purposes for which it facilitates the exchange of infor­ 5 mation between the Customs and the department for the time being responsible for the administration of the Social Security Act 1964 include enabling the recovery of any debt due to the Crown in respect of any beneﬁt.
Supply of arrival and departure information for beneﬁt purposes The heading to section 280 is amended by inserting “and beneﬁt debt recovery” after “beneﬁt”.
Section 280 is amended by repealing subsection (2) and sub­ stituting the following subsection: 10 15 “(2) The purpose of this section is to facilitate the exchange of in­ formation between the Customs and the department for the time being responsible for the administration of the Social Se­ curity Act 1964 for all or any of the following purposes: “(a) to verify the entitlement or eligibility of any person to 20 or for any beneﬁt: to verify the amount of any beneﬁt to which a person is or was entitled or for which a person is or was eligible: to enable the recovery of any debt due to the Crown in respect of any beneﬁt.” 25 “(b) “(c) ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ 19 March 2008 Legislative history Divided from Social Assistance (Debt Prevention and Minimisation) Amendment Bill (Bill 134–2) by committee of the whole House 12 2 Published under the authority of the House of Representatives—2008 Wellington, New Zealand: