Penal Institutions Amendment Act
Penal Institutions Amendment Act
Penal Institutions Amendment Act
Penal Institutions Amendment Act
Public Act |
1991 No 128 |
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Date of assent |
18 December 1991 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Penal Institutions Act 1954
BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1991, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Penal Institutions Act 1954.
(2)
This Act shall come into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
2 New heading and section inserted
The Penal Institutions Act 1954 is hereby amended by inserting, after section 36e (as inserted by section 3 of the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1989), the following heading and section:
Disclosure of Inmate Information
“36f Inmate information may be disclosed to Department of Social Welfare and Accident Compensation Corporation
“(1)
The purpose of this section is to facilitate the disclosure of information by the Department of Justice to the Department of Social Welfare and the Accident Compensation Corporation for the purpose of—
“(a)
Enabling the Director-General of Social Welfare to exercise, in respect of any inmate, the power conferred by section 76 of the Social Security Act 1964 (which provides for the withdrawal of a benefit during detention in a penal institution):
“(b)
Enabling the Corporation to exercise, in respect of any inmate, the power conferred by section 67 of the Accident Compensation Act 1982 (which provides, in part, for the reduction, postponement, and cancellation of earnings related compensation during detention in a penal institution).
“(2)
For the purpose of this section, the Director-General of Social Welfare or the Managing Director of the Accident Compensation Corporation may from time to time, in accordance with arrangements made from time to time between the Secretary for Justice and the Director-General or, as the case may be, the Managing Director, request the Secretary for Justice to supply the information specified in subsection (4) of this section in respect of inmates who are received in any institution during such period as is specified in the request.
“(3)
Every request made under subsection (2) of this section shall be in writing.
“(4)
The information referred to in subsection (2) of this section is as follows:
“(a)
Such biographical information as is sufficient to identify the inmate:
“(b)
The name of the institution in which the inmate is or was detained.
“(5)
On receipt of a request made under subsection (2) of this section, the Secretary for Justice may supply the information requested to,—
“(a)
Where the request was made by the Director-General of Social Welfare, any officer or employee or agent of the Department of Social Welfare who is authorised in that behalf by the Director-General:
“(b)
Where the request was made by the Managing Director of the Accident Compensation Corporation, any officer or employee or agent of the Accident Compensation Corporation who is authorised in that behalf by the Managing Director.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.