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Arrangement with person outside State performing similar functions to Authority
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106. (1) Subject to the Data Protection Regulation, the Act of 2018 and subsections (2) and (4), the Authority may enter into an arrangement with a person outside the State whereby—
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(a) the Authority agrees to furnish to the person information in its possession that is required by that person for the purposes of the performance of that person’s functions, and
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(b) the person agrees to furnish to the Authority information in that person’s possession that is required by the Authority for the purposes of the performance by it of its functions under this Act.
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(2) The Authority shall not furnish information to a person outside the State pursuant to an arrangement referred to in subsection (1) unless the Authority requires of, and obtains from, that person an undertaking in writing that the person will—
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(a) not use that information or disclose that information to any other person other than for the purposes of the performance of functions that are the same as or similar to the functions of the Authority under this Act, and
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(b) comply with any other requirement specified by the Authority as a condition for furnishing the information concerned.
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(3) The Authority may give an undertaking to a person outside the State that it will comply with a requirement specified by the person relating to the use or disclosure by it of information obtained pursuant to an arrangement referred to in subsection (1) where compliance with the requirement is a condition imposed by that person for furnishing the information concerned.
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(4) An arrangement under subsection (1) shall not operate to require the Authority to provide information to a person outside the State if the disclosure of that information by the Authority is prohibited by law.
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(5) In this section, “person outside the State” means a person who, under the law of a place other than the State, performs in that place functions that are the same as or similar to those performed by the Authority under this Act.
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