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Law / Bermuda

Debt Collection Act 2018, credit reporting agencies

Debt Collection Act 2018 (Bermuda), 2018:61, s. 22 (credit reporting agencies)

A data brokers rule binding public and private bodies.

Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Obligation class
Prohibition, Consent
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • If you are a credit reporting agency, or its officer or employee, do not furnish any information from the agency's files except in a report given under the written instructions of the person to whom the information relates, in response to the order of a court, or to such persons and under such conditions and restrictions as the Minister prescribes in regulations.
  • Do not give or obtain any information from the files of a credit reporting agency about another person except for the purposes the section refers to in its subsection (2).

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

What record it asks for

Logging duty

Section 22 limits to whom and on what instruction a credit reporting agency may furnish information from its files; it creates no log or record duty.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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The Debt Collection Act 2018 defines a credit reporting agency as a person who furnishes reports relating to the credit worthiness of a person for gain or profit, or on a routine, nonprofit basis as an ancillary part of a business carried on for gain or profit.

Section 22 of the Act provides that a credit reporting agency, officer or employee shall not furnish any information from the files of the agency except in a report given under the written instructions of the person to whom the information relates, in response to the order of a court, or to such persons and under such conditions and restrictions as the Minister prescribes in regulations.

Section 22 of the Act also provides that no person shall give or obtain any information from the files of a credit reporting agency about another person except for the purposes referred to in subsection (2). The consolidated text records section 22 as not in force, while all other sections of the Act are in force from .

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