Section 289 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Information manager

289 Information manager (1) The Prime Minister may designate a person or agency to be an information manager for injury-related information purposes. (2) A manager must report to a Minister designated by the Prime Minister. (3) A manager has all the powers that are reasonably necessary or expedient to enable the manager to carry out the purpose of this Part, including (without limitation) power to exercise or perform the following functions: (a) to develop, set, publish, and maintain standards for the purpose of this Part after consultation with such persons or organisations as the manager considers appropriate: (b) to collect and aggregate injury-related information: (c) to facilitate access (including by publishing) to injury-related information and unit record data: (d) to consider and review current and future injury-related information requirements. (4) The manager may disclose injury-related information to any officer of another government agency solely for bona fide research or statistical purposes relevant to the functions and duties of that government agency, and to bona fide private sector researchers, only if— (a) the information is to be used in a form in which the individual concerned is not identified; or (b) the information is to be used for statistical purposes and will not be published in a form that could reasonably be expected to identify the individual concerned; or (c) the information is to be used for research purposes for which approval by an ethics committee, if required, has been given and will not be published in a form that could reasonably be expected to identify the individual concerned. (5) Information may be provided under subsection (4) in a form determined by an agreement between the manager and the chief executive of the government agency or the bona fide researcher. (6) In exercising the powers conferred by subsection (3) , a manager must— (a) comply with the Privacy Act 1993 and the Health Information Privacy Code and any other codes issued under that Act; and (b) ensure that standards set for the purpose of this Part are complied with; and (c) comply with section 11 of the Statistics Act 1975 . (7) A manager may delegate any of the manager's functions. (8) If Statistics New Zealand is designated as an information manager,— (a) subsections (2) to (7) and sections 290 and 292 do not apply; but (b) nothing in this section limits or affects anything in the Statistics Act 1975 .