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166: Manner and form of access
or “How you can access personal information and in what format”
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“Agencies must report yearly on how they handle personal information”

If you’re in charge of an agency that can access personal information, you need to tell people about it every year. You must write a report that explains how your agency uses the rules for sharing, accessing, and matching personal information. This report needs to be part of the big yearly report that you give to Parliament. The report should talk about how your agency follows the rules in this part of the Privacy Act and in Schedule 3. You have to do this because it’s the law, and it helps everyone understand how you’re handling people’s personal information.

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Next up: 168: Power to amend Schedule 3 by Order in Council

or “Government can change rules about agencies sharing identity information”
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Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Identity information

167Annual reporting requirement

  1. The chief executive of an accessing agency must include in every annual report prepared by the chief executive for the purposes of section 43 of the Public Finance Act 1989, or any other applicable enactment requiring an annual report to Parliament, details of the operation of this Part and Schedule 3.

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