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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Information sharing

136: Purpose of this subpart

You could also call this:

“This section explains why government agencies can share your personal information”

This part of the law allows government agencies to share your personal information with each other. They can only do this if they have an approved agreement. The reason they do this is to help provide better public services to you and other New Zealanders. For example, this might mean sharing your information between different government departments so you don’t have to fill out the same forms over and over again.

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Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Information sharing

136Purpose of this subpart

  1. The purpose of this subpart is to authorise agencies to share personal information in accordance with an approved information sharing agreement to facilitate the provision of public services.

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