New Zealand Acts

HARMFUL DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ACT 2015

- As at 9 March 2022
- Act 63 of 2015

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 1 - Approved Agency and enforcement

           SUBPART 1 - Purpose, interpretation, the Crown, and communication principles

   3.      Purpose
   4.      Interpretation
   5.      Act binds the Crown
   6.      Communication principles

           SUBPART 2 - Enforcement provisions

   7.      Approved Agency
   8.      Functions and powers of Approved Agency
   9.      Power of Approved Agency to delegate
   10.     Protection for employees of Approved Agency
   11.     Who may bring proceedings
   12.     Threshold for proceedings
   13.     District Court may refer matter back to Approved Agency
   14.     Court may require Approved Agency to provide information
   15.     Applications
   16.     Mode of hearing and evidence
   17.     Technical advisers
   18.     Interim orders
   19.     Orders that may be made by court
   20.     Court may vary or discharge order
   21.     Offence of non-compliance with order
   22.     Causing harm by posting digital communication
   22A.    Posting intimate visual recording without consent
   22B.    Court may make civil order during proceedings for offence under section 22A
   23.     Liability of online content host for content posted by user
   24.     Process for obtaining protection against liability for specific content
   25.     Further provisions related to section 24
   26.     Regulations
   27.     Rules
   28.     Consequential amendments to other Acts

   PART 2 - Amendments to other Acts concerning use of digital communications

           SUBPART 1 - Crimes Act 1961

   29.     Principal Act
   30.     Section 179 amended (Aiding and abetting suicide)

           SUBPART 2 - Harassment Act 1997

   31.     Principal Act
   32.     Section 3 amended (Meaning of harassment)
   33.     Section 4 amended (Meaning of specified act)
   34.     Section 19 amended (Standard conditions of restraining orders)

           SUBPART 3 - Human Rights Act 1993

   35.     Principal Act
   36.     Section 61 amended (Racial disharmony)
   37.     Section 62 amended (Sexual harassment)
   38.     Section 63 amended (Racial harassment)

           SUBPART 4 - Privacy Act 1993

   39.     Principal Act
   40.     Section 6 amended (Information privacy principles)
   41.     Section 56 amended (Personal information relating to domestic affairs)
           Consequential amendments to other Acts