6Matching of data

6 Matching of data

(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.