8Use by Crown of required information

8 Use by Crown of required information

(1)  The Director of Building Control may, for the required purposes, provide to a planning authority, a State Service officer, a State Service employee, or a person acting pursuant to a contract or arrangement with the Crown or a planning authority, information provided to the Director of Building Control under section 7 .

(2)  The Director of Building Control, a planning authority, a State Service officer, a State Service employee, or a person acting pursuant to a contract or arrangement with the Crown or a planning authority, may only use for the required purposes information that is provided to the Director of Building Control under section 7 .

(3)  The required purposes are –

(a) assisting in ensuring compliance with the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 or the Building Act 2016 ; and

(b) analysis of the information or the consideration or determination of policies in relation to the provision of housing and the use of housing for short stay purposes; and

(c) any other prescribed purpose; and

(d) the preparation of a report, or other document, related to the use of the information for another purpose specified in this subsection.

(4)  A person must not –

(a) make available to another person who is not a person referred to in subsection (2) ; or

(b) publish –

information provided to the Director of Building Control under section 7 , unless the information is in a form that does not enable individual premises, or the owners or occupiers of the premises, to be identified.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.