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178: Information matching agreements
or “Rules for agencies sharing your personal information with each other”
You could also call this:

“Using results from approved data matching to take action”

You can use information from an approved information matching programme to take action against someone, even if that action might negatively affect them. This is allowed as long as no other laws stop you from using this information.

If you decide to take action that might negatively affect someone based on information from an approved matching programme, you must start this action within 12 months of getting the information. You can ask the Privacy Commissioner to give you more time if you need it.

You’re allowed to use the information from an approved matching programme in other ways too, as long as those ways are legal.

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or “More time can be given to deal with matched information in special cases”
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Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Authorised information matching programmes

179Use of results of authorised information matching programme

  1. Subject to any other enactment or rule of law that limits or restricts the information that may be taken into account in taking adverse action against an individual, an agency that is involved in an authorised information matching programme may take adverse action against an individual on the basis of any discrepancy produced by that programme.

  2. If an agency decides to take adverse action against an individual on the basis of a discrepancy produced by an authorised information matching programme, the adverse action must be commenced not later than 12 months after the date on which the agency received or derived information from the programme that gave rise to the discrepancy (or any extended time limit granted by the Commissioner under section 180).

  3. Subsection (1) does not limit or restrict the use that may lawfully be made, by an agency, of any information produced by an authorised information matching programme.

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