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FINES REFORM ACT 2014 - SECT 177

Access to and use of information held by credit reporting bodies

    (1)     On the written request of the Director or the sheriff, a credit reporting body is authorised to disclose to the Director or the sheriff the following information about a fine defaulter for the purposes of the Director or the sheriff taking enforcement action under this Act against the fine defaulter—

        (a)     relevant information;

        (b)     any telephone number or email address recorded in the name of the fine defaulter;

        (c)     credit worthiness information in relation to a fine defaulter;

        (d)     the name of any authorised deposit-taking institution in respect of which the fine defaulter is a customer and the details of any accounts held by the fine defaulter with that institution.

    (2)     In this section—

"authorised deposit-taking institution" has the same meaning as in the Banking Act 1959 of the Commonwealth;

"credit worthiness "has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth.



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