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Privacy Act 2020

Access to and correction of personal information - Access to personal information

43: Transfer of IPP 6 request

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"What happens if the agency you ask for information doesn't have it and sends your request to another agency instead"

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If you ask an agency for information under the IPP 6 request, they might not have the information you want. They might think another agency has the information, or that it is more closely related to what another agency does. You will be told if your request is sent to another agency. The agency must send your request to the other agency within 10 working days, unless they think you do not want them to do this.

If the agency does not send your request to another agency, they will tell you this within 10 working days. They will also tell you that they did not send your request because they thought you did not want them to, and they will tell you the name of the agency that could have answered your request. You can find more information about this by looking at the Privacy Act 2020 and other related laws, such as the 1993 No 28 s 39.

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43Transfer of IPP 6 request

  1. This section applies if an agency that receives an IPP 6 request—

  2. does not hold the information to which the request relates, but believes that the information is held by another agency; or
    1. believes that the information to which the request relates is more closely connected with the functions or activities of another agency.

      1. The agency must promptly, and in any case not later than 10 working days after the day on which the IPP 6 request is received, transfer the request to the other agency and inform the requestor accordingly.

      2. However, subsection (2) does not apply if the agency has good cause to believe that the requestor does not want the request transferred to another agency.

      3. If, in reliance on subsection (3), the agency does not transfer the request, the agency must promptly, and in any case not later than 10 working days after the day on which the IPP 6 request was received, inform the requestor that—

      4. this section applies in respect of the request; and
        1. in reliance on subsection (3), the request has not been transferred; and
          1. the name of the agency to which the request could be transferred.

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