Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DATA-MATCHING PROGRAM (ASSISTANCE AND TAX) ACT 1990 - SECT 6

             (1)  Subject to subsections (2) and (3):

                     (a)  data about persons may be transferred between agencies; and

                     (b)  data about persons may be matched or otherwise dealt with by the matching agency or the tax agency; and

                     (c)  the results of the matching may be given to source agencies;

in accordance with the data matching program made up of data matching cycles the steps in which are set out in section 7.

             (2)  There are to be no more than 9 data matching cycles in any one year.

             (3)  Only one data matching cycle is to be in progress at any one time.