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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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"Agencies can access police information if the rules let them"

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You can get access to law enforcement information if it is allowed by the rules in Schedule 4. This rule overrides some other rules, including 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.

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Part 7Sharing, 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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