Privacy Amendment (Office of the Privacy Commissioner) Act 2000 (Cth)

Privacy Amendment (Office of the Privacy Commissioner) Act 2000

Act No. 2 of 2000 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 5 August 2009

[This Act was amended by Act No. 70 of 2009]

Amendments from Act No. 70 of 2009 [Schedule 3 (items 58 and 59) amended clause 15 of Schedule 1 Schedule 3 (items 58 and 59) commenced on 5 August 2009]

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing, Attorney‑General's Department, Canberra

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Part 1—Privacy Act 1988

Part 2—Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986

Part 3—Transitional

Schedule 2—Consequential amendment Crimes Act 1914 An Act to create the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and for related purposes

[Assented to 29 February 2000]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Privacy Amendment (Office of the Privacy Commissioner) Act 2000.

2 Commencement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(2) If this Act does not commence under subsection (1) within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Part 1—Privacy Act 1988

1 Part IV (heading) Repeal the heading, substitute:

Part IV—Office of the Privacy Commissioner

2 Division 1 of Part IV (heading) Repeal the heading, substitute:

Division 1—Office of the Privacy Commissioner

19 Establishment of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner