Section Sch6-4 — Privacy Act 2020: Safeguards for individuals affected by results of programmes

4 Safeguards for individuals affected by results of programmes (1) The agencies involved in an authorised information matching programme must establish reasonable procedures for confirming the validity of discrepancies before an agency seeks to rely on them as a basis for action in respect of an individual. (2) Subclause (1) does not apply if the agencies concerned consider that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the results are not likely to be in error, and in forming that view the agencies must have regard to the consistency in content and context of the information being matched. (3) Where those confirmation procedures do not take the form of checking the results against the source information, but instead involve direct communication with the individual affected, the agency that seeks to rely on the discrepancy as a basis for action in respect of an individual must notify the individual affected that no check has been made against the information which formed the basis for the information supplied for the programme. (4) Every notification in accordance with subclause (3) must include an explanation of the procedures that are involved in the examination of a discrepancy revealed by the programme.