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FINES REFORM ACT 2014 (NO. 47 OF 2014) - SECT 178

Certain agencies may give information for enforcement purposes

    (1)     For the purpose of the enforcement of registered fines, directions and warrants under this Act, the Director, the sheriff and any contractor or sub-contractor supporting the functions of the Director or the sheriff may request information that may assist in carrying out that purpose from any person or body.

    (2)     On the written request of the Director, the sheriff or any contractor or sub-contractor supporting the functions of the Director or the sheriff, a specified enforcement information agency may give the person or body making the request access to any information held by the agency that may be of use in the enforcement of registered fines, directions and warrants under this Act.

    (3)     A person who obtains access to any information as a result of a request made under this section may use the information to enforce registered fines, directions and warrants under this Act but is otherwise subject to all the requirements and restrictions concerning the handling, use and disclosure of the information that apply to the person who provided, or granted access to, the information in response to the request.

    (4)     In this section, specified enforcement information agency means a person or body—

        (a)     that holds information that may be of use in the enforcement of registered fines, directions and warrants under this Act; and

        (b)     that is prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this section to be a specified enforcement information agency—

but does not include a person or body listed in section 90A(1) of the Melbourne City Link Act 1995 .



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