Privacy Amendment Act 2004 (49 of 2004)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Privacy Act 1988

Part 4   Use of government payroll identifiers

8   At the end of section 100

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(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the making of regulations for the purposes of paragraph 7.2(c) of the National Privacy Principles if:

(a) the regulations prescribe an organisation, or class of organisations; and

(b) the regulations prescribe an identifier, or class of identifiers, of a kind commonly used in the processing of pay, or deductions from pay, of Commonwealth officers, or a class of Commonwealth officers; and

(c) the circumstances prescribed by the regulations for the use or disclosure by the organisation, or an organisation in the class, of the identifier, or an identifier in the class, relate to the provision by the organisation of superannuation services for the benefit of Commonwealth officers; and

(d) before the regulations are made, the Minister consults the Commissioner about the proposed regulations.

(4) In subsection (3):

superannuation services includes the management, processing, allocation and transfer of superannuation contributions.