Credit Reporting Act 2013

16.

Purposes for which information may be used by credit information provider

16. The purposes referred to in sections 14(4) and 15(4) are—

(a) verifying information provided in or in connection with a credit application;

(b) evaluating any risk arising from the affording or extending of credit to, or the taking of a guarantee or indemnity from, a credit information subject;

(c) evaluating any risk arising from any changes to the nature or term of a credit agreement, or to a guarantee or indemnity given in connection with a credit agreement;

(d) monitoring any failure to comply with any obligation under a credit agreement or a guarantee or indemnity given in connection with a credit agreement that has not been corrected;

(e) evaluating whether to make any proposal or arrangement with respect to the debts of a credit information subject in circumstances in which a credit information subject has made a request for such an evaluation to be made;

(f) analysing the nature of the credit information provider’s portfolio of credit agreements.