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Privacy Act 2020

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

187: Avoidance of controls on information matching through use of official information statutes

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“Official information acts can't be used to gather personal data for information matching”

You are not allowed to use the Official Information Act 1982 or the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 to get personal information from a public sector agency if you only want to use it for an information matching programme. This means that if you work for a public sector agency, you can’t share personal information with another public sector agency if they just want to use it to match information. This rule is in place to protect people’s privacy and make sure their personal information is not misused.

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

187Avoidance of controls on information matching through use of official information statutes

  1. Despite anything in the Official Information Act 1982 or the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, a public sector agency must not disclose to any other public sector agency under those Acts any personal information if the information is sought solely or principally for use in an information matching programme.

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