Te Rau Matatau collects and stores information from this form to:
- Manage the business of Te Rau Matatau (including internal reporting, administrative processes and selection of scholarship and prize winners)
- Comply with the requirements of the Education Act 1989 and other legislation relating to Maintenance of Records including legislation governing the Maintenance of Official Records ANZ accountability for public funding
- Supply information to government agencies and other organisations as set out below
In signing, this enrolment form, you authorise such disclosure on the understanding that Te Rau Matatau will observe the conditions governing the release of information as set out in the Privacy Act 1993, the Education Act 1989, and other relevant legislation. You may see any information about you and amend any errors in that information. To do so, contact the Enrolments Officer.
NB: The Privacy Act 1993 came into force on 1st of July 1993 with the stated aim of protecting the privacy of natural persons. It requires Te Rau Matatau to collect, hold, handle, use and disclose personal information in accordance with the twelve information Privacy principles in the act.
http://www.privacy.org.nz
Supply of Information to government agencies and other organisations
Te Rau Matatau supplies data collected in this form to the governement agencies including the Ministry of Education, New Zealand Qualification Authority, the Tertiary Education Commission, The Ministry of Social Development (in relation to Student Loans and allowances), Inland Revenue (Student Loans), Immigration New Zealand and the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (for those who are not New Zealand citizens or permanent residents) and agencies that support particular Ākonga through scholarships, payment of fees, or other awards (if you are a recipient of one of these awards). Those agencies use the data collected from tertiary education organisations to administer the Tertiary Education System including allocating funding, to develop policy advice for the government and to conduct statistical analysis and research.
Your personal details (name, date of birth and residency) as entered on this form will be included
in the National Student Index and may be used in an authorised information matching programme with the New Zealand
Birth register and, ID-card provisioning agencies. The government agencies above may supply data collected on this form
to Statistic NZ for the purposes of integrating data with data by other government agencies, subject to provisions of the
Statistics Act 1975. Integrated data is used for the production of official statistics, to inform policy advice to the
government and for research purposes in handling data supplied by you on this form, the government agencies are
required to comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1993. When required by law, Te Rau Matatau releases information to
government agencies such as the New Zealand Police, Department of Justice, Ministry of Social Development, and the
Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC). Information collected on this form may be supplied to other educational
organisations for the purpose of verifying academic records. You authorise Te Rau Matatau to take such steps as reasonably
necessary to verify your identity for the purpose of enrolment including seeking information from other government
agencies.