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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Identity information

166: Manner and form of access

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“How you can access personal information and in what format”

If you are allowed to see someone’s personal information under [section 165], you can get it in different ways. The agency that has the information and the agency that wants to see it can decide together how to share it. They might let you look at it directly in a computer system, or they might send the information to each other.

The agency that has the information can also choose how to show it to the agency that wants to see it. They can agree on what form or shape the information should be in when it’s shared.

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Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Identity information

166Manner and form of access

  1. Access to identity information permitted under section 165 may be facilitated between a holder agency and an accessing agency in the manner agreed by the agencies (for example, by direct access to information stored in a holder agency’s database, or by exchange of information between the agencies).

  2. Identity information that is held by a holder agency and accessed by an accessing agency under section 165 may be made available to the accessing agency in the form agreed by the agencies.

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