Privacy Amendment (Utility Credit Providers) Regulations 2017
I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 14 December 2017
Peter Cosgrove
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
George Brandis QC
Contents
1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1
3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1
4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
Privacy Regulation 2013 2
1 Name
This instrument is the Privacy Amendment (Utility Credit Providers) Regulations 2017.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table | The day after this instrument is registered. | 19 December 2017 |
| 2. Schedule 1, item 1 | 1 January 2017. | 1 January 2017 |
| 3. Schedule 1, item 2 | 1 March 2017. | 1 March 2017 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Privacy Act 1988.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Privacy Regulation 2013
1 After section 14
Insert:
14AA Permitted disclosure of credit information by energy and water utilities
For the purposes of subparagraph 21D(2)(a)(i) of the Act, the following credit providers are prescribed:
(a) an entity that engages in the retail sale of electricity or gas services in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory;
(b) an entity that engages in the retail sale of water, sewerage or drainage services in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory.
2 Section 14AA
Repeal the section.