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 4 - Affected information recipients  

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Div 4 inserted by No 197 of 2012.

Subdivision B - Dealing with regulated information  

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Subdiv B inserted by No 197 of 2012.

SECTION 22B  

22B   ADDITIONAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR AFFECTED INFORMATION RECIPIENTS  

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If an affected information recipient is an APP entity, then the matters for the purposes of Australian Privacy Principle 5.1 include the following matters to the extent that the personal information referred to in that principle is regulated information of the recipient:

(a) that the policy (the credit reporting policy ) of the recipient that is referred to in subsection 22A(3) contains information about how an individual may access the regulated information about the individual that is held by the recipient, and seek the correction of such information;

(b) that the credit reporting policy of the recipient contains information about how an individual may complain about a failure of the recipient to comply with this Division or the registered CR code if it binds the recipient; and

(c) that the credit reporting policy of the recipient contains information about how the recipient will deal with such a complaint.

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