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184: Reports on information matching provisions
or “Regular reviews of information sharing rules and their effectiveness”
You could also call this:

“Minister must share privacy report and government's response with Parliament”

When the Privacy Commissioner gives a report about sharing, accessing, and matching personal information, the Minister in charge has some important tasks to do. You need to know that the Minister must share this report with the House of Representatives, which is where the people who make laws for New Zealand meet. The Minister has to do this within 5 working days of getting the report. If the House isn’t meeting at that time, the Minister has to share it as soon as they can when the House starts meeting again.

After sharing the report, the Minister has another job. Within 6 months, they need to tell the House what the Government plans to do about the things mentioned in the report. This is called the Government’s response. The Minister does this by giving another report to the House of Representatives.

These steps help make sure that the people who make laws for New Zealand know what’s happening with personal information and can decide if they need to make any changes to protect your privacy better.

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Next up: 186: Avoidance of controls on information matching through use of exceptions to information privacy principles

or “Preventing the use of exceptions to bypass rules for information matching programmes”
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Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Authorised information matching programmes

185Responsible Minister must present copy of report under section 184 and report setting out Government’s response to House of Representatives

  1. The responsible Minister must—

  2. present a copy of a report under section 184 to the House of Representatives within 5 working days after receiving it from the Commissioner or, if Parliament is not in session, as soon as practicable after the commencement of the next session of Parliament; and
    1. within 6 months after complying with paragraph (a), present a report to the House of Representatives setting out the Government’s response to the report under section 184.

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