New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

18 Confidentiality of information

• (1) No officer or employee of the association may disclose (except to some other officer or employee of the association) any commercially sensitive information obtained—

  • (a) under, or because of, this order; or

  • (b) under the Commodity Levies Act 1990 in relation to this order.

  (2) Subclause (1) does not affect or prevent—

  • (a) the production of records or accounts under section 17(1) of the Commodity Levies Act 1990; or

  • (b) the giving of evidence in any legal proceedings taken—

    • (i) under, or in relation to, this order; or

    • (ii) in relation to this order, under, or in relation to, the Commodity Levies Act 1990.

  (3) Subclause (1) does not prevent the association from disclosing any information (not being information relating to an identifiable person) or from using any information for the purpose of—

  • (a) determining the voting entitlements, and counting the votes, of commercial growers:

  • (b) issuing invoices to commercial growers or collection agents and collecting the levy.

  (4) Subclause (1) does not prevent the association from—

  • (a) disclosing any information (not being information relating to an identifiable person) for statistical or research purposes; or

  • (b) disclosing or using information for the purpose of collecting levies; or

  • (c) disclosing or using any information with the consent of every identifiable person to whom it relates.