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DATA AVAILABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT 2022 - SECT 95

Dealing with complaints

    The Commissioner may deal with a complaint made under section   94 by doing any of the following:

  (a)   making any preliminary inquiries, of the complainant or any other person, that the Commissioner considers necessary for the purposes of determining whether and how to deal with the complaint;

  (b)   requesting the complainant to give the Commissioner further information in connection with the complaint;

  (c)   if the complaint causes the Commissioner to reasonably suspect that an entity has breached this Act, or a data sharing agreement, while the entity is or was a data scheme entity--investigating the entity's conduct under subsection   101(2);

  (d)   considering whether it would be appropriate to deal with the complaint by conciliation and, if so, dealing with it or arranging for it to be dealt with in that way;

  (e)   if the Commissioner is satisfied no action is required in relation to the complaint--deciding to take no action;

  (f)   exercising any other powers of the Commissioner under this Act that the Commissioner considers appropriate in relation to the complaint, including:

  (i)   the power to conduct assessments under section   99; and

  (ii)   the power to transfer matters to other agencies or bodies under section   107.



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