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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Information sharing

154: Responsibilities of lead agency

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"What the main agency must do when sharing information"

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If you are a lead agency for an information sharing agreement, you must follow some rules. You must make a copy of the agreement available for people to look at for free at your head office on working days, and you must also make it accessible for free on your website. You must prepare a report on how the agreement is working at the times required by the Commissioner under section 156, and you must do any other jobs that this part of the law says you must do. If a Minister says another public sector agency's website can be used to make the agreement accessible, you do not have to put it on your own website.

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

154Responsibilities of lead agency

  1. A lead agency for an information sharing agreement must, if the agreement is approved by Order in Council under section 145(1),—

  2. make a copy of the agreement—
    1. available for inspection, free of charge, at the lead agency's head office on any working day; and
      1. accessible, free of charge, on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of the lead agency; and
      2. prepare a report on the operation of the agreement at the intervals required by the Commissioner under section 156; and
        1. carry out any other responsibilities imposed by this Part.

          1. A lead agency does not need to comply with subsection (1)(a)(ii) if the relevant Minister designates an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of another public sector agency as the Internet site where a copy of the agreement is to be made accessible free of charge.

          2. To avoid doubt, nothing in this section applies to a party to an information sharing agreement that is not the lead agency except as provided in subsection (2).

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