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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Information sharing

151: Commissioner may prepare and publish report on approved information sharing agreement

You could also call this:

"The Commissioner can write and share a report on how an approved information sharing agreement affects people's privacy."

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The Commissioner can write a report about an information sharing agreement that has been approved. You might wonder what this report is about - it's about any privacy issues that come up because of the agreement. The Commissioner can send this report to the relevant Minister.

The Commissioner can include some things in the report, such as comments about how the agencies talked to people before making the agreement, as they did under section 150(1)(a). They can also include what they told the agencies under section 150(1)(a)(i).

The Commissioner can make the report public, but first they must talk to the relevant Minister about it.

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

151Commissioner may prepare and publish report on approved information sharing agreement

  1. If an information sharing agreement is approved by Order in Council, the Commissioner may prepare a report for the relevant Minister on any matter relating to privacy that arises or is likely to arise in respect of the agreement.

  2. Without limiting subsection (1), the Commissioner may include in the report—

  3. any comment that the Commissioner wishes to make about the consultation that the agencies carried out under section 150(1)(a); and
    1. any submissions that the Commissioner made to the agencies under section 150(1)(a)(i).

      1. The Commissioner—

      2. may publish a report under subsection (1); but
        1. must consult the relevant Minister before doing so.

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