Privacy Act 1988

• This version of the Privacy Act 1988 includes the 'private sector amendments' contained in the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (Act No. 155 of 2000). Th e amendments will commence on 21 December 2001.
• The text of the Act in this compilation was prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra. This compilation was prepared on 10 January 2001 incorporating amendments up to Act No. 155 of 2000.
• RTF and PDF versions of this compliation are available from SCALEPlus.
• This HTML version of the Act was prepared by Graham Greenleaf. Some headings have been edited for readability. Any text added is indicated as follows: __text__

• Privacy Act 1988
• Part I--Preliminary
• Part II--Interpretation
• Part III--Information privacy
• Part IIIAA--Privacy codes
• Part IIIA--Credit reporting
• Part IV--Office of the Privacy Commissioner
• Part V--Investigations
• Part VI--Public interest determinations and temporary public interest determinations
• Part VII--Privacy Advisory Committee
• Part VIII--Obligations of confidence
• Part IX--Miscellaneous
• Part X--Amendments of other Acts
• Schedule 1--Amendments of other Acts
• Schedule 2--Interim guidelines concerning the collection, storage, use and security of tax file number information
• Schedule 3--National Privacy Principles
• Notes to the Privacy Act 1988