Electronic Identity Verification Amendment Regulations 2014
2014/62
Electronic Identity Verification Amendment Regulations 2014
Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 24th day of February 2014
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Pursuant to section 67 of the Electronic Identity Verification Act 2012, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
Contents
4 Regulation 4 amended (Participating agencies)
5 Regulation 7 amended (Retention of information relating to electronic identity credentials)
Regulations
1 Title
These regulations are the Electronic Identity Verification Amendment Regulations 2014.
2 Commencement
These regulations come into force on 28 March 2014.
3 Principal regulations
These regulations amend the Electronic Identity Verification Regulations 2013 (the principal regulations).
4 Regulation 4 amended (Participating agencies)
Replace regulation 4(e) with:
“(e) each of the bodies listed in Schedule 1.”
5 Regulation 7 amended (Retention of information relating to electronic identity credentials)
In regulation 7(2), replace
“the Schedule”
with“Schedule 2”
.
Schedule |
Schedule 1
Other participating agenciesr 4(e)
Consumer Financial Distribution Limited
Datacom Payment Manager Limited
European Financial Services Limited
First Credit Union
GE Finance and Insurance
Hospitality New Zealand Incorporated
KlickEx Corporation Limited
NZForex Limited
Partners Life Limited
Personal Information Management Limited
Private Box Limited
Prometheus Finance Limited
Real Estate Institute of New Zealand Incorporated
Real Finance Limited
Snapper Services Limited
Schedule 2
Period for which Service may retain information following cancellation or expiry of electronic identity credentialr 7(2)
Relevant provision of Act Period Section 10(1) 11 years Section 31 11 years Section 33(1)(a) 11 years Section 33(1)(b) 1 month Section 33(1)(c) 11 years
Michael Webster,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 28 March 2014, amend the Electronic Identity Verification Regulations 2013 (the principal regulations), which are made under the Electronic Identity Verification Act 2012 (the Act).
The Act provides for the Electronic Identity Verification Service (the Service). Among other things, the Service enables a person to verify his or her identity by electronic means in order to meet the identification requirements of participating agencies in relation to certain transactions and services. The Service also enables entities that are declared by regulations to be participating agencies to verify a person's identity by electronic means, provided that they have the person's consent to verification using the Service.
These regulations add the following entities to the list of participating agencies, declaring them to be participating agencies for the purposes of the Act:
Datacom Payment Manager Limited:
European Financial Services Limited:
First Credit Union:
Hospitality New Zealand Incorporated:
Personal Information Management Limited.
These regulations also relocate the list of participating agencies in regulation 4(e) of the principal regulations to a new Schedule 1 for ease of reference and amendment.
Date of notification in Gazette: 27 February 2014.
These regulations are administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.