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Fines Reform Act 2014
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177 Access to and use of information held by credit reporting bodies
(1) On the written request of the Director or the sheriff, a credit reporting body is authorised to disclose to the Director or the sheriff the following information about a fine defaulter for the purposes of the Director or the sheriff taking enforcement action under this Act against the fine defaulter—
(a) relevant information;
(b) any telephone number or email address recorded in the name of the fine defaulter;
(c) credit worthiness information in relation to a fine defaulter;
(d) the name of any authorised deposit-taking institution in respect of which the fine defaulter is a customer and the details of any accounts held by the fine defaulter with that institution.
***authorised deposit-taking institution*** has the same meaning as in the Banking Act 1959 of the Commonwealth;
***credit worthiness*** has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth.