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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Law enforcement information

169: Purpose of this subpart

You could also call this:

“Explaining why some government agencies can access certain people's law enforcement information”

This part of the law allows certain government agencies to see information about specific people that other agencies have collected for law enforcement. You can think of it like giving some government departments permission to look at police records about particular individuals.

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Rights and equality > Privacy
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“Government can change rules about agencies sharing identity information”

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170: Relationship between this subpart and other law relating to information disclosure, or

“How this part relates to other laws about sharing information”

Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Law enforcement information

169Purpose of this subpart

  1. The purpose of this subpart is to authorise specified public sector agencies to have access to law enforcement information held by other specified agencies about identifiable individuals.