Section 177 — Privacy Act 2020: Interpretation

177 Interpretation In this subpart and Schedule 6 , unless the context otherwise requires,— adverse action means any lawful action of an agency that may adversely affect the rights, benefits, privileges, obligations, or interests of any specific individual, including any decision— (a) to cancel or suspend any monetary payment: (b) to refuse an application for a monetary payment: (c) to alter the rate or amount of a monetary payment: (d) to recover an overpayment of a monetary payment: (e) to impose a penalty: (f) to recover a penalty or fine: (g) to make an assessment of the amount of any tax, levy, or other charge, or of any contribution, that is payable by an individual, or to alter an assessment of that kind: (h) to investigate the possible commission of an offence: (i) to make a deportation order in relation to the individual, to serve the individual with a deportation liability notice, or to deport the individual from New Zealand authorised information matching programme means an information matching programme that is authorised by an information matching provision discrepancy , in relation to an authorised information matching programme, means a result of that programme that warrants the taking of further action by an agency for the purpose of giving effect to the objective of the programme information matching programme means the comparison (whether manually or by means of any electronic or other device) of any document that contains personal information about 10 or more individuals with 1 or more other documents that contain personal information about 10 or more individuals, for the purpose of producing or verifying information that may be used for the purpose of taking adverse action against an identifiable individual information matching provision means any provision specified in the second column of Schedule 5 as an information matching provision of an enactment specified in the first column of that schedule information matching rules means the rules for the time being set out in Schedule 6 monetary payment includes— (a) a benefit as defined in Schedule 2 of the Social Security Act 2018: (b) a lump sum payable under section 90 of that Act: (c) any special assistance granted out of a Crown Bank Account from money appropriated by Parliament under section 101 of that Act: (d) any monetary entitlement payable under Part 4 , 10 , or 11 of the Accident Compensation Act 2001. Compare: 1993 No 28 s 97