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VICTIMS OF CRIME ASSISTANCE ACT 2009 - SECT 134

Arrangement with corresponding scheme managers about giving and receiving information

134 Arrangement with corresponding scheme managers about giving and receiving information

(1) This section applies to the scheme manager and a corresponding scheme manager—
(a) only to the extent this Act or another law allows the scheme manager to give information to the corresponding scheme manager; and
(b) only to the extent another law allows the corresponding scheme manager to give information to the scheme manager.
(2) The scheme manager and corresponding scheme manager may enter into a written arrangement by which the information is given and received.
(3) Without limiting subsection (2) , the arrangement may provide for the electronic transfer of information.
(4) However, if information is to be electronically transferred and, under this Act or another law, there is a limitation on who may access the information or the purposes for which the information may be used, the arrangement must provide for the limitation.
(5) In this section—

"corresponding scheme" means a scheme (however called) under a law of the Commonwealth or another State that provides for the payment of financial assistance (however called) to victims of violence.

"corresponding scheme manager" means a person who has similar functions to the scheme manager in relation to a corresponding scheme.



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