Interpretation
29 Interpretation
In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears—
file means any repository or record in which information relating to any person is recorded or retained, in any manner or form, by a reporting agency;
prescribed benefit means—
a benefit of a commercial nature; or
a benefit in or affecting employment; or
a lease of premises or a licence conferring a right to occupy premises;
prescribed report means a communication made to a trader by a reporting agency or another trader of information relating to a person, not being a communication made with the knowledge of, and of information known to, that person;
reporting agency means a person who carries on the business of providing prescribed reports.
For the purposes of this Part, where a prescribed report consists of a communication by electronic or mechanical means (except by telephone or other means of voice transmission) the report will be regarded as being written.
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