Privacy Act 1988
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View history notePt IIIA substituted by No 197 of 2012.
Pt IIIA inserted by No 116 of 1990 (as amended by No 136 of 1991. No 136 of 1991 contains the following application provision:
unless the doing of the act, or the engaging in of the practice, constitutes a breach of section 18H or 18J of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.
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For the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the doing of an act, or the engaging in of a practice, before 25 February 1992 is not taken to constitute:
(a)
a breach of the Code of Conduct; or
(b)
a breach of any provision of Part IIIA;
Div 1 inserted by No 197 of 2012.
In general, this Part deals with the privacy of information relating to credit reporting.
Divisions 2 and 3 contain rules that apply to credit reporting bodies and credit providers in relation to their handling of information relating to credit reporting.
Division 4 contains rules that apply to affected information recipients in relation to their handling of their regulated information.
Division 5 deals with complaints to credit reporting bodies or credit providers about acts or practices that may be a breach of certain provisions of this Part or the registered CR code.
Division 6 deals with entities that obtain credit reporting information or credit eligibility information by false pretence, or when they are not authorised to do so under this Part.
Division 7 provides for compensation orders, and other orders, to be made by the Federal Court or Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2).
S 19 inserted by No 197 of 2012; amended by No 13 of 2013; No 13 of 2021, s 3 and Sch 2 item 698, effective 1 September 2021.
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