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Privacy Act 2020

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

184: Reports on information matching provisions

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"Checking and reporting on rules for sharing personal information"

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The Commissioner has to check how well the information matching rules are working every 5 years. You will want to know that they have to think about whether these rules should still be used and if they need to be changed. They then have to tell the Minister what they found out.

The Commissioner has to do their first report on an information matching rule within 5 years of their last report on that rule under section 106 of the Privacy Act 1993, or within 5 years of this law starting if they have not done a report before. This means you can see when they have to do their reports.

The Commissioner's reports help make sure the information matching rules are working properly, and you can be informed about what they do.

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

184Reports on information matching provisions

  1. The Commissioner must, at 5-yearly intervals,—

  2. review the operation of every information matching provision and consider, in particular, whether—
    1. the authority conferred by the information matching provision should be continued; and
      1. any amendments to the provision are necessary or desirable; and
      2. report the result of the review to the responsible Minister.

        1. The first report of an information matching provision under this section is due not later than—

        2. 5 years after the date of the last report prepared in respect of that information matching provision by the Commissioner under section 106 of the Privacy Act 1993; or
          1. 5 years after the commencement of this section, if no previous report has been prepared in respect of that information matching provision by the Commissioner.

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