Privacy Act 1988

PART II - INTERPRETATION  

Division 1 - General definitions  

SECTION 6F   STATE INSTRUMENTALITIES ETC. TREATED AS ORGANISATIONS  

6F(1)   Regulations treating a State instrumentality etc. as an organisation.  

This Act applies, with the prescribed modifications (if any), in relation to a prescribed State or Territory authority or a prescribed instrumentality of a State or Territory (except an instrumentality that is an organisation because of section 6C) as if the authority or instrumentality were an organisation.

Note 1: The regulations may prescribe different modifications of the Act for different authorities or instrumentalities. See subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

Note 2: Regulations may prescribe an authority or instrumentality by reference to one or more classes of authority or instrumentality. See subsection 13(3) of the Legislation Act 2003 .

6F(2)    
(Repealed by No 46 of 2011)

6F(3)   Making regulations to treat instrumentality etc. as organisation.  

Before the Governor-General makes regulations prescribing a State or Territory authority or instrumentality of a State or Territory for the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister must:

(a) be satisfied that the relevant State or Territory has requested that the authority or instrumentality be prescribed for those purposes; and

(b) consult the Commissioner about the desirability of regulating under this Act the collection, holding, use, correction and disclosure of personal information by the authority or instrumentality.