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Privacy Act 2020

Miscellaneous provisions - General

202: Commissioner may require agency to supply information

You could also call this:

“Privacy Commissioner can ask agencies for contact details and information about personal data they hold”

The Privacy Commissioner can ask an agency to give them certain information. This is to help the Commissioner answer questions from the public about personal information that agencies keep.

The Commissioner can ask an agency for two things:

  1. The name and contact details of the agency’s privacy officer. The privacy officer is someone the agency has chosen to handle privacy matters. You can find out more about privacy officers in [section 201].

  2. Any other information the Commissioner needs about the personal information the agency holds. The Commissioner must have a good reason for asking for this information.

This helps the Commissioner know who to talk to at each agency about privacy issues and understand what personal information different agencies have.

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Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions
General

202Commissioner may require agency to supply information

  1. For the purpose of enabling the Commissioner to respond to inquiries from the public about personal information held by an agency, the Commissioner may require an agency to supply—

  2. the name and contact details of the agency’s privacy officer appointed under section 201; and
    1. any other information that the Commissioner reasonably requires in relation to the personal information held by the agency.

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