National Security Legislation Amendment (Comprehensive Review and Other Measures No. 1) Act 2022 (31 of 2022)

Schedule 10   Privacy

Part 3   Privacy rules of ONI

Office of National Intelligence Act 2018

23   After subsection 53(1)

Insert:

(1A) ONI must not, except in accordance with the privacy rules:

(a) collect personal information about an Australian citizen or permanent resident under paragraph 7(1)(g); or

(b) communicate intelligence information that is personal information about an Australian citizen or permanent resident.

(1B) Personal information about an Australian citizen or permanent resident means information or an opinion about an identified Australian citizen or permanent resident, or an Australian citizen or permanent resident who is reasonably identifiable:

(a) whether the information or opinion is true or not; and

(b) whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.

(1C) Intelligence information means intelligence produced by ONI under paragraph 7(1)(c), (d) or (g).