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206: Commissioner and staff to maintain secrecy
or “Privacy Commissioner and staff must keep work information confidential”
You could also call this:

“Privacy Commissioner can share job-related information with overseas privacy authorities”

The Commissioner can share information with privacy enforcement authorities in other countries. This information can be anything the Commissioner has that relates to their job under this law or other laws. The Commissioner can share this if they think it will help the other authority do their job or if it will encourage the other authority to share information back that helps the Commissioner.

When the Commissioner shares information, they can set rules about how it’s used. These rules might be about how the information is stored, who can see it, or what happens to copies of documents.

The Commissioner can do this even if another part of the law (section 206(1)) says they can’t share information.

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or “The Commissioner can discuss and share information with other officials”
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Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions
General

207Commissioner may share information with overseas privacy enforcement authority

  1. The Commissioner may provide to an overseas privacy enforcement authority any information, or a copy of any document, that the Commissioner—

  2. holds in relation to the performance or exercise of the Commissioner’s functions, duties, or powers under this Act (including under section 86 or 87) or any other enactment; and
    1. considers may—
      1. assist the authority in the performance or exercise of the authority’s functions, duties, or powers under or in relation to any enactment; or
        1. enable the authority to reciprocate with the provision of other related information that will assist the Commissioner in the performance or exercise of the Commissioner’s functions, duties, or powers under this Act or any other enactment.

        2. The Commissioner may impose any conditions that the Commissioner considers appropriate in relation to the provision of any information or copy of any document under subsection (1), including conditions related to—

        3. the storage and use of, or access to, anything provided:
          1. the copying, return, or disposal of copies of any documents provided.

            1. This section overrides section 206(1).