Privacy Act 1988

PART IIIA - CREDIT REPORTING  

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Pt 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:

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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;

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.

Division 2 - Credit reporting bodies  

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Div 2 inserted by No 197 of 2012.

Subdivision D - Dealing with credit reporting information etc.  

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Subdiv D inserted by No 197 of 2012.

SECTION 20L   ADOPTION OF GOVERNMENT RELATED IDENTIFIERS  

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20L(1)    
If:

(a) a credit reporting body holds credit reporting information about an individual; and

(b) the information is a government related identifier of the individual;

the body must not adopt the government related identifier as its own identifier of the individual.

Civil penalty: 2,000 penalty units.

20L(2)    
Subsection (1) does not apply if the adoption of the government related identifier is required or authorised by or under an Australian law or a court/tribunal order.

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