Privacy Amendment (2015 Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 10, 2015

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 regulation.

Dated 26 February 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

George Brandis QC

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Privacy Regulation 2013

1  Name

  This is the Privacy Amendment (2015 Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the following Acts:

 (a) the Privacy Act 1988;

 (b) the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 13

Insert:

13A  Permitted disclosure of credit information by commercial credit providers

  For subparagraph 21D(2)(a)(i) of the Act, a credit provider is prescribed if:

 (a) the credit provider discloses credit information; and

 (b) the disclosure is made in connection with the provision of commercial credit.

2  Paragraphs 23(1)(a) and (b)

Omit “services”, substitute “services in Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory”.

3  Subsections 23(2) and (3)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

Repeal of section

 (2) This section is repealed on 1 January 2016.