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Privacy Act 2020

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

172: Access by accessing agencies to law enforcement information

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“Certain agencies can access law enforcement information as allowed by law”

You can access law enforcement information held by a holder agency if you are an accessing agency. This is allowed if it’s specified in Schedule 4. This rule overrides some other laws. It overrides section 237 and Schedule 1 of the District Court Act 2016. It also overrides section 174 and Schedule 2 of the Senior Courts Act 2016. This means that even if those other laws say something different, this rule about accessing law enforcement information still applies.

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

172Access by accessing agencies to law enforcement information

  1. An accessing agency may have access to law enforcement information held by a holder agency if such access is authorised by the provisions of Schedule 4.

  2. Subsection (1) overrides—

  3. section 237 and Schedule 1 of the District Court Act 2016; and
    1. section 174 and Schedule 2 of the Senior Courts Act 2016.

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