Privacy Guide
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State Acts
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Australian State/Territory legislation
This page is under development.
In New South Wales the 1998 Privacy
& Personal Information Protection Act (PPIP
) covers the public sector and established an Office of the NSW
Privacy Commissioner (NSWPC).
In Victoria the new Information
Privacy Act (IPB)
articulates 10 Information
Privacy Principles, based on the National Privacy Principles. It is
restricted to the public sector and does not apply to health
information, for which separate legislation is being developed. The
legislation establishes a State Privacy Commissioner to administer the
Act and to deal with complaints.
Australian Capital Territory government
agencies are notionally covered by the federal legislation, although
health records were removed from the jurisdiction of the Federal Privacy
Commissioner by the ACT Health Records (Access & Privacy) Act
1997 (AHRAP)
based on the federal privacy principles and intended to allow patients
access to their own medical records in the public and private sectors.
The Northern Territory is developing
privacy legislation for the public sector only.
Pending enactment of the new
Commonwealth legislation the other states have issued administrative
instructions requiring broad compliance by government agencies with the
federal principles but are not moving towards discrete privacy
legislation covering public or private sectors bodies.
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