New Zealand Legislation: Bills
Bills are proposed Acts
The purpose of this Part is to amend the principal Act—
(a) so that it facilitates disclosure of prisoner information for the purposes of the operation of—
(i) section 76(1) of the Social Security Act 1964 (which provides that under which a benefit is, in general, not payable in respect of any period during which a beneficiary is imprisoned or detained in, or is an escaper from, a prison, pursuant to a sentence of imprisonment, preventive detention, or corrective training); and
(ii) sections 86 and 86A of the Social Security Act 1964 (which provide for the recovery of debts due to the Crown within the meaning of section 85A of that Act); and
(iii) section 307B of the Education Act 1989 (which provides for the recovery of debts in respect of the payment to a person of allowances, student loans, or other money to which he or she was not, or is no longer, entitled); and
(iv) regulation 28 of the Student Allowances Regulations 1998 (which provides that under which a student imprisoned or detained in a prison, pursuant to a sentence of imprisonment, preventive detention, or corrective training is not entitled to receive any payment under those regulations in respect of any period of any such imprisonment or detention); and
(b) to enable benefits, allowances, and student loans, or any of them, payable to a person to be suspended, despite section 103(1) of the Privacy Act 1993, immediately a relevant discrepancy arises or is identified in prisoner information disclosed under the principal Act; and
(c) to re-enact other elements of section 180 of the principal Act (which authorises disclosure of prisoner information for social security purposes).