Exchange of information and co-operative management of offenders
65 Exchange of information and co-operative management of offenders
A relevant agency of the State may enter into arrangements (co-operative protocols) with other relevant agencies to enable information held by each of the agencies concerned to be shared or exchanged between those agencies and the co-operative management of eligible offenders who could be subject to this Act.
The information to which a co-operative protocol may relate is limited to the following—
information concerning eligible offenders,
any other information that may be prescribed by the regulations.
Under a co-operative protocol, each relevant agency of the State the subject of the arrangement is authorised—
to request and receive information held by any other relevant agency the subject of the arrangement, and
to disclose information to any of those relevant agencies,
without the consent of any person concerned, but only to the extent that the information is reasonably necessary to assist in the exercise of functions under this Act or the functions of the relevant agencies concerned.
This section does not limit the operation of any Act under which the relevant agency is authorised or required to disclose information to another person or body.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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