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Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008

Registration - Register of financial service providers - Searches of register

32: Search purposes

You could also call this:

“Why you can look at the list of financial service providers”

You can search the register for a few different reasons:

You can look up information about yourself, or someone else can look up information about you if you say it’s okay. This follows the rules in the Privacy Act 2020.

You can also search the register for the reasons mentioned in section 26 of this law.

Lastly, you can search the register to help someone else with any of these search reasons.

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Part 2 Registration
Register of financial service providers: Searches of register

32Search purposes

  1. The register may be searched for the following purposes:

  2. by an individual, or a person with the consent of the individual, for the purpose of searching for information about that individual in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020:
    1. by a person for a purpose referred to in section 26:
      1. by a person for the purpose of advising another person in connection with any of the purposes referred to in this section.

        Notes
        • Section 32(a): amended, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).