New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FINES ACT 1996 - SECT 117AB

117AB Access to and use of information held by credit reporting bodies

(1) A credit reporting body is authorised to disclose to the Commissioner, on written request, relevant information about a fine defaulter for the purpose of enabling the Commissioner to exercise a function under this Act in relation to the fine defaulter.

(2) In this section--

"credit reporting body" and
"identification information" have the same meanings as in the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth.

"relevant information" about a fine defaulter means any of the following information--

(a) identification information,

(b) the name of an authorised deposit-taking institution of which the fine defaulter is a customer and details of any account of the fine defaulter with the institution,

(c) the contact details of the fine defaulter's current or last known employer.

Note : Identification information under the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth consists of the following information--

(a) full name (including any known aliases), sex and date of birth,

(b) a maximum of 3 addresses consisting of a current or last known address and 2 immediately previous addresses,

(c) name of current or last known employer,

(d) driver licence number.