# Authorising access to identifying information

> act-s336D — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

336D Authorising access to identifying information
          (1) The Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may, in
              writing, authorise a specified person, or any person included in a
              specified class of persons, to access identifying information of the
              kind specified in the authorisation.
          (2) The Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner must
              specify in an authorisation under this section, as the purpose or
              purposes for which access is authorised, one or more of the
              following purposes:
                (a) one or more of the purposes set out in subsection 5A(3);










                 (b) disclosing identifying information in accordance with this
                      Part;
                 (c) administering or managing the storage of identifying
                      information;
                 (d) making identifying information available to the person to
                      whom it relates;
                 (e) modifying identifying information to enable it to be matched
                      with other identifying information;
                  (f) modifying identifying information in order to correct errors
                      or ensure compliance with appropriate standards;
                 (g) the purposes of:
                        (i) this Act or an instrument made under this Act; or
                       (ii) the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 or an instrument
                            made under that Act; or
                      (iii) the Customs Act 1901 or an instrument made under that
                            Act; or
                      (iv) any other law of the Commonwealth prescribed by the
                            regulations;
                 (h) complying with laws of the Commonwealth or the States or
                      Territories.
          (3) However, the Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner
              must not specify as a purpose for which access is authorised a
              purpose that will include or involve the purpose of:
                (a) investigating an offence against a law of the Commonwealth
                     or a State or Territory; or
                (b) prosecuting a person for such an offence;
              if the identifying information in question relates to a personal
              identifier of a prescribed type.










Division 3—Disclosing identifying information