29Exchange of information with relevant agencies

29 Exchange of information with relevant agencies

29 Exchange of information with relevant agencies

(1) The Commissioner may give relevant information to a relevant agency to enable or assist the relevant agency to exercise the relevant agency’s functions.

(2) A relevant agency may give relevant information to the Commissioner to enable or assist the Commissioner’s exercise of the Commissioner’s functions.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the Commissioner may enter into an arrangement (an information sharing arrangement) with a relevant agency or the head of the relevant agency to share or exchange relevant information held by the Commissioner or the agency.

(4) The relevant information held by the Commissioner or a relevant agency that may be given under this section is limited to information about the following—

(a) a complaint about a contravention of the Charter made under this Act,

(b) matters relating to systemic issues relating to victims of crime,

(c) matters prescribed by the regulations.

(5) Under an information sharing arrangement, the Commissioner and the relevant agency are, despite another Act or law, authorised to—

(a) request and receive information held by the other party to the arrangement, and

(b) disclose information to the other party.

(6) Subsection (5) applies only to the extent the information is reasonably necessary to assist in the exercise of the functions of the Commissioner under this Act or the functions of the relevant agency.

(7) This section does not—

(a) require the Commissioner to give information to a relevant agency only in accordance with subsection (1), or with an information sharing arrangement, if the information may otherwise be lawfully given, or

(b) limit the operation of another Act or law under which a relevant agency is authorised or required to disclose information to another person or body.

(8) In this section—

relevant agency means the following—

(a) a government sector agency,