Privacy Amendment (SA NT DataLink) Regulations 2019

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 04 April 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Privacy Regulation 2013

1  Name

  This instrument is the Privacy Amendment (SA NT DataLink) Regulations 2019.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Section 8 (after the heading)

Insert:

New South Wales

2  Section 8

Before “For”, insert “(1)”.

3  At the end of section 8

Add:

South Australia

 (2) For the purposes of subsection 6F(1) of the Act:

 (a) the Department for Health and Wellbeing of South Australia is prescribed; and

 (b) the modification set out in subsection (3) of this section is prescribed.

 (3) The Act applies in relation to the Department for Health and Wellbeing of South Australia as if paragraph 7(1)(ee) of the Act were modified by substituting the following paragraph:

 “(ee) an act done, or a practice engaged in, by the Department for Health and Wellbeing of South Australia in connection with undertaking technical data linkage work for SA NT DataLink, other than an exempt act or exempt practice (see sections 7B and 7C);”.