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Privacy Act 2020

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

180: Extension of time limit

You could also call this:

“More time can be given to deal with matched information in special cases”

If you get information from an authorised information matching programme, the Privacy Commissioner can give you more time to deal with it than what’s normally allowed. This can happen if the Commissioner thinks you can’t reasonably meet the usual time limit. The Commissioner might give you extra time if:

You’ve received a lot of information.

The issues involved are really complicated.

There’s any other good reason.

The Commissioner can decide to give extra time for just one case, a group of cases, or for all cases. This is different from the usual time limit mentioned in section 179(2).

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

180Extension of time limit

  1. If an agency derives or receives information produced by an authorised information matching programme, the Commissioner may, either generally or in respect of any case or class of cases, grant an extension of the time limit set out in section 179(2) in respect of that information if the Commissioner is satisfied that the agency cannot reasonably be required to meet that time limit because of—

  2. the large quantity of information derived or received by the agency; or
    1. the complexity of the issues involved; or
      1. any other reason.

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