Privacy Amendment (External Dispute Resolution Scheme) Regulation 2016

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 05 May 2016

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 (External Dispute Resolution Scheme) Regulation 2016.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  At the end of Part 1

Add:

14A  Permitted disclosure of credit information by energy and water utilities

Credit providers

 (1) For 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 Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory;

 (b) an entity that engages in the retail sale of water, sewerage or drainage services in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory.

Repeal of section

 (2) This section is repealed on 1 January 2017.