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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Information sharing

155: Report of lead agency

You could also call this:

“Lead agency must report on information sharing agreement”

The lead agency needs to prepare a report about an approved information sharing agreement. This report must include specific details that the Commissioner asks for. The Commissioner decides what to include by thinking about how much it costs to report, how interested the public is in the information, and how much the agreement affects people’s privacy.

You need to include this report in the lead agency’s yearly report. This yearly report is part of the Public Finance Act 1989. If the report is needed every year, it goes in the annual report. If it’s not needed every year, it goes in the first annual report after the time set for the report.

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

155Report of lead agency

  1. A report prepared by a lead agency under section 154(1)(b) must include the matters prescribed in regulations made under section 215(1)(d) that the Commissioner specifies after having regard to—

  2. the costs of reporting:
    1. the degree of public interest in information about the matters prescribed in those regulations:
      1. the significance of the privacy implications of the approved information sharing agreement.

        1. A report must be included—

        2. in the lead agency's annual report under the Public Finance Act 1989, if it is required annually; or
          1. in the lead agency's annual report under the Public Finance Act 1989 that immediately follows the end of each interval specified under section 156(1)(b).

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