Section Sch6-20 — Social Security Act 2018: Disclosure of information about people to whom service provider’s contract applies

20 Disclosure of information about people to whom service provider’s contract applies (1) This clause applies to any personal information about a person or persons to whom a contract under section 373 applies that is held by the contracted service provider concerned or MSD. (2) For the purposes of this clause, regulations made under section 418(1)(q) may state— (a) the circumstances in which a contracted service provider and its employees may release or disclose to MSD and MSD employees information to which this clause applies held by the contracted service provider and the conditions with which MSD and MSD employees must comply in dealing with the information; or (b) the circumstances in which MSD and MSD employees may release or disclose to a contracted service provider and its employees information to which this clause applies held by MSD and the conditions with which the contracted service provider and its employees must comply in dealing with the information. (3) If satisfied on reasonable grounds that its disclosure is in accordance with regulations of the kind referred to in subclause (2), MSD, an MSD employee, a contracted service provider, or an employee of a contracted service provider may release or disclose information to which this clause applies. (4) Nothing in this clause requires MSD, MSD employees, a contracted service provider, or employees of a contracted service provider to release or disclose any information. (5) In this clause,— employee , in relation to a contracted service provider, includes a volunteer held includes deemed for the purposes of the Official Information Act 1982 to be held. Compare: 1964 No 136 s 125C(2), (3), (5)–(7)