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Information Privacy Act 2014

38Commissioner may make preliminary inquiries

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38 Commissioner may make preliminary inquiries The information privacy commissioner may make inquiries of the respondent for a privacy complaint, or any other person, for the purpose of deciding whether to deal with the complaint.

Previous section37Commissioner must tell respondent about complaint Next section39Commissioner may decide not to deal with privacy

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