Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Information Matching) Amendment Act 2006

1: Title
This Act is the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Information Matching) Amendment Act 2006.
2: Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
1: Amendments to principal Act
3: Principal Act amended
This Part amends the Act that was previously called the Housing Restructuring Act 1992
4: Title amended
Paragraph (c) , income-related rents, information matching, and other tenancy matters
5: Name of principal Act changed
1: After the commencement of this Act, the principal Act is called the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act 1992.
2: Section 1(1) and Tenancy Matters Restructuring
a: section 19A(1) Housing Act 1955
b: the definition of HNZ section 2 20B(3) (4) 52(2) Housing Corporation Act 1974
c: sections 24(3) 25(2) 3 Housing Corporation Amendment Act 2001
d: the enacting statement, regulation 1 Act 3 Housing Restructuring (Appeals) Regulations 2000
e: section 7(1)(i) Legal Services Act 2000
f: section 3 3 Relationships (Statutory References) Act 2005
g: section 25(3) Residential Tenancies Act 1986
h: paragraph (f)(xvi) income 3(1) 61EA(2A) Social Security Act 1964
i: clause 5(b)(iii) Social Security (Temporary Additional Support) Regulations 2005
j: regulation 9(2)(aa) Student Allowances Regulations 1998
3: Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the Housing Restructuring Act 1992
6: New Part 6 inserted
The following Part is inserted after Part 5
6: Information matching
66: Interpretation
In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,— benefit
a: a benefit as defined in section 3(1) of the Social Security Act 1964
b: a lump sum payable under any of sections 61DB, 61DC, and 61DD of that Act
c: any special assistance granted out of a Crown Bank Account from money appropriated by Parliament under section 124(1)(d) of that Act
d: an allowance established by regulations made under section 303 of the Education Act 1989 Corporation section 2(1) Corporation housing department Social Security Act 1964 partner spouse or partner A
a: who is A's civil union partner or de facto partner; and
b: who is not, in the Corporation's opinion, living apart from A.
67: Purpose of
section 68 The purpose of section 68
a: verify the entitlement or eligibility of any person to or for any benefit; and
b: verify the amount of any benefit to which any person is or was entitled or to which any person is or was eligible; and
c: recover debts due to the Crown (acting by and through the department) in respect of benefits.
68: Disclosure of tenancy information for benefit purposes
1: For the purpose stated in section 67
a: the biographical information held by the Corporation that is sufficient to identify those persons, including their addresses; and
b: the details of the tenancies of those persons held by the Corporation that are necessary for the purpose stated in section 67
2: A request under subsection (1)
3: On receipt of a request under subsection (1)
a: of the chief executive of the department; and
b: authorised for the purpose by that chief executive.
4: Information supplied under a request under subsection (1)
69: Information and details to be disclosed
Examples of the information and details referred to in section 68(1)(a) and (b)
a: his or her full name, any other names used by him or her, and his or her date of birth; and
b: the full name, any other names used by, and the date of birth of, his or her spouse or partner (if any) and the full names, any other names used by, and the dates of birth of, any dependent children of the tenant or his or her spouse or partner (if any); and
c: the physical address of the Corporation housing that is the subject of the tenancy; and
d: the start date, end date (if any), and weekly rent of the tenancy; and
e: his or her income, and the components of it, as advised by him or her on any form or forms, or in any other information, supplied to the Corporation for the purposes of enabling it to determine his or her rental, and the period or periods to which that income, or a component of it, relates; and
f: any address or other details supplied to the Corporation for the purposes of enabling it to contact him or her after the tenancy has ended.
2: Consequential amendments to
Privacy Act 1993
7: Principal Act amended
This Part amends the Privacy Act 1993
8: Interpretation
1: The definition of specified agency section 97 paragraph (b)
ba: the company within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act 1992 .
2: The definition of specified agency section 97 paragraph (f)
fa: the Housing New Zealand Corporation established (as the Housing Corporation of New Zealand) by section 3(1) of the Housing Corporation Act 1974 .
9: Schedule 3 amended
Schedule 3 Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act 1992 Section 68