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Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008

Registration - Register of financial service providers - Searches of register

33: When search breaches information privacy principle

You could also call this:

“When looking for someone's information without a good reason is not allowed”

If you search a public register for personal information, you need to have a good reason. The law says there are certain reasons that are okay. If you search for personal information without one of these good reasons, you are breaking the rules. This is called breaching an information privacy principle. If you do this, you could get in trouble according to Parts 5 and 6 of the Privacy Act 2020. The law treats this the same way as other privacy breaches mentioned in section 69(2)(a)(i) of that Act.

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Register of financial service providers: Searches of register

33When search breaches information privacy principle

  1. A person who searches a public register for personal information for a purpose that is not a purpose set out in section 32 must be treated, for the purposes of Parts 5 and 6 of the Privacy Act 2020, as having breached an information privacy principle under section 69(2)(a)(i) of that Act.

Notes
  • Section 33: replaced, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).