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.