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182: Reporting requirements
or “What information agencies must include in reports about their information-sharing programs”
You could also call this:

“Yearly reports on approved data-sharing programmes between agencies”

You need to know about reports on authorised information matching programmes. The Privacy Commissioner must write a report each year about these programmes. The report is due before the end of each calendar year and covers the programmes that ran during the financial year ending on 30 June.

The report must include details about each programme. It needs to explain what the programme does and how well it follows the rules. The rules are in sections 178 to 181 and the information matching rules. The report also has to tell you about any extra time that was given to a programme, why it was given, and what reasons supported this decision.

The Commissioner doesn’t have to share information that might stop the programme from working properly. When the Commissioner checks how well a programme follows the rules, they can use the same methods they use for investigations. These methods are explained in sections 85 to 89.

After the report is finished, the Minister in charge must give a copy to the House of Representatives as soon as they can.

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

183Reports on authorised information matching programmes

  1. The Commissioner must, before the end of each calendar year, report to the responsible Minister on each authorised information matching programme that is carried out (in whole or in part) during the financial year ending on 30 June in that year.

  2. A report must set out, in relation to each programme,—

  3. an outline of the programme; and
    1. an assessment of the extent of the programme’s compliance, during that year, with—
      1. sections 178 to 181; and
        1. the information matching rules; and
        2. the details of each extension granted under section 180, the reasons why the extension was granted, and the grounds in support of those reasons.

          1. This section does not require the Commissioner to disclose in any report any information relating to an information matching programme that would be likely to frustrate the objective of the programme.

          2. Sections 85 to 89 apply in relation to an assessment carried out by the Commissioner for the purposes of subsection (2)(b), and all references in those sections to an investigation must be read as a reference to an assessment.

          3. As soon as practicable after receiving a report, the responsible Minister must present a copy of the report to the House of Representatives.

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