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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Authorised information matching programmes

178: Information matching agreements

You could also call this:

“Rules for agencies sharing your personal information with each other”

When an agency wants to share your personal information with another agency as part of an approved information matching programme, they need to follow some rules. These rules are written down in an agreement between the two agencies.

The agreement must be in writing and include rules about how they will match the information. These rules need to be at least as strict as the official information matching rules.

The agencies might decide to charge each other for the work they do in the information matching programme. They can include this in their agreement if they want to.

After the agencies sign the agreement, or if they make any changes to it later, they must send a copy to the Privacy Commissioner right away.

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Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Authorised information matching programmes

178Information matching agreements

  1. Personal information held by an agency may be disclosed to another agency under an authorised information matching programme only in accordance with a written agreement that—

  2. is entered into between the agencies; and
    1. includes provisions that reflect the information matching rules, or provisions that are no less onerous than those rules.

      1. An agreement may provide that the agencies involved in the authorised information matching programme may charge each other fees for the services provided for the purposes of the programme.

      2. The parties to an agreement entered into under this section must ensure that a copy of the agreement, and of any amendments subsequently made to the agreement, are immediately forwarded to the Commissioner.

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