41Annual reporting

41 Annual reporting

(1) The Secretary must give the Minister a report including the following information for each financial year ending after the commencement of this section: (a) statistics relating to all requests in the financial year, by or on behalf of government authorities, for 1:1 matching services, broken down by: (i) requesting authority (identified by name); and (ii) the service requested; and (iii) requests in response to which there was provided either information contained in, or associated with, a government identification document, or an indication of a match being the outcome of the comparison involved in the service; and (iv) requests in response to which there was provided neither information contained in, or associated with, a government identification document nor an indication of a match being the outcome of the comparison involved in the service; (b) statistics relating to all requests in the financial year from non‑government entities for 1:1 matching services, including: (i) the total number of those requests; and (ii) the names of the non‑government entities that made those requests; and (iii) the number of those requests the response to which was that the requested comparison resulted in a match for an individual; and (iv) the number of those requests the response to which was that the requested comparison did not result in a match for an individual; (c) for 1:many matching services: (i) the number of times that the service was used in the year; and (ii) whether the requests were endorsed as required by section 17 or not; (d) information about the accuracy of each system for biometric comparison of facial images that is operated by: (i) the Department; or (ii) the Department administered by the Minister administering the Australian Passports Act 2005; for the purpose of providing identity verification services; or (e) the following material relating to disclosures of identification information that were made in the financial year and were authorised by subsection 32(1) (about disclosures to lessen or prevent threats to life or health): (i) the total number of disclosures; (ii) the number of individuals whose identification information was disclosed; (f) information about security incidents occurring in the financial year in connection with one or more of the approved identity verification facilities; (g) information about actions taken in the financial year in response to security incidents that occurred (in the financial year or earlier) in connection with any of the approved identity verification facilities; (h) information about data breaches connected with the operation of any of the approved identity verification facilities in the financial year; (i) information about actions taken in the financial year in response to data breaches connected with the operation of any of the approved identity verification facilities in the financial year or earlier; (j) information about termination or suspension in the financial year of the ability of a party to a participation agreement or the NDLFRS hosting agreement to request an identity verification service because the party does not or did not comply with the agreement or the access policy for the service; (k) any other information that: (i) relates to the financial year and either an identity verification service or the administration of this Act; and (ii) is required by the Minister. (2) The report must not unreasonably disclose personal information that relates to an individual. Timing of annual report (3) The Secretary must give the Minister the report as soon as practicable after the end of the financial year and in any case within 6 months after the end of the financial year. Tabling of annual report (4) The Minister must, subject to subsection (5), cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the Minister receives the report. (5) For the purposes of tabling the report, the Minister may make any deletions from the report as the Minister considers necessary to avoid prejudicing an investigation or compromising the operational activities of a Commonwealth, State or Territory government authority referred to in paragraph 17(1)(a).