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187: Avoidance of controls on information matching through use of official information statutes
or “Official information acts can't be used to gather personal data for information matching”
You could also call this:

“The law allows changes to be made to Schedule 5 through an official process”

You can change Schedule 5 of this law in a few ways. The Governor-General can do this by making an Order in Council if the responsible Minister recommends it. Here’s what they can do:

They can update Schedule 5 by replacing old numbers of information matching rules with new numbers if they’ve been changed. They can also remove any information matching rules from the schedule. If they want, they can even get rid of the whole Schedule 5.

When they make an order to change Schedule 5, it’s called secondary legislation. This means it has to follow special rules about how it’s published, which you can find in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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or “Government can update or remove rules for sharing information between agencies”
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Part 7 Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Authorised information matching programmes

188Power to amend Schedule 5 by Order in Council

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the responsible Minister,—

  2. amend Schedule 5 by—
    1. replacing a reference to an information matching provision that has been renumbered with a reference to the corresponding renumbered information matching provision:
      1. repealing an information matching provision; or
      2. repeal Schedule 5.

        1. An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

        Notes
        • Section 188(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).