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Privacy Act 2020

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

183: Reports on authorised information matching programmes

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"The Commissioner must report each year on how programmes that share people's information are working."

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The Commissioner has to report to the Minister each year about programmes that match people's information. You will see these reports about what happened during the financial year that ended on 30 June. The report must include what the programme is about, if it followed the rules, and details about any extensions that were granted under section 180, including why they were granted.

The Commissioner does not have to include information in the report that might stop the programme from working. When the Commissioner is checking if a programme followed the rules, sections 85 to 89 apply, and this means the Commissioner is making an assessment, not doing an investigation.

The Minister has to give a copy of the report to the House of Representatives as soon as possible after they get it from the Commissioner.

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Part 7Sharing, 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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