Privacy Amendment (Public Health Contact Information) Act 2020 (44 of 2020)
Schedule 1 Amendments
Privacy Act 1988
1 Subsection 6(1)
Insert:
communication device means an item of customer equipment (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1997).
contact tracing has the meaning given by subsection 94D(6).
COVID app data has the meaning given by subsection 94D(5).
COVIDSafe means an app that is made available or has been made available (including before the commencement of this Part), by or on behalf of the Commonwealth, for the purpose of facilitating contact tracing.
COVIDSafe user , in relation to a communication device, means the person whose registration data was uploaded from the device when the user was registered through COVIDSafe.
data store administrator means:
(a) for the purposes of a provision of Part VIIIA specified in a determination under section 94Z - the agency specified in that determination (but not to the extent of any limitation in that determination); or
(b) otherwise - the Health Department.
former COVIDSafe user has the meaning given by subsection 94N(2).
Health Department means the Department administered by the Health Minister.
Health Minister means the Minister administering the National Health Act 1953.
in contact : a person has been in contact with another person if the operation of COVIDSafe in relation to the person indicates that the person may have been in the proximity of the other person.
National COVIDSafe Data Store means the database administered by or on behalf of the Commonwealth for the purpose of contact tracing.
registration data , of a person, means the information about the person that was uploaded from a communication device when the person was registered through COVIDSafe.
State or Territory health authority means the State or Territory authority responsible for the administration of health services in a State or Territory.
State or Territory privacy authority means a State or Territory authority that has functions to protect the privacy of individuals (whether or not the authority has other functions).