1   Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Regulation 2000.

2   Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 July 2000.

3   Definition

(1)  In this Regulation:

the Act means the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998.

(2)  The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

4   Exemptions in relation to privacy management plans

A public sector agency (the relevant agency) is exempt from the provisions of section 33 of the Act if:

(a)  the staff of the relevant agency are part of the staff of another public sector agency, or

(b)  the Minister has, by order published in the Gazette, declared that the relevant agency is taken not to be a separate agency for the purposes of section 33 of the Act but is taken to be included in another public sector agency,

and the privacy management plan of that other agency states that the plan extends to the relevant agency.

5   Exemptions in relation to public registers

(1)  The Registrar-General is exempt from the provisions of Part 6 of the Act with respect to the following public registers:

(a)  the Register within the meaning of the Real Property Act 1900 (ie the Torrens Register) and any index that is kept by the Registrar-General in connection with that Register,

(b)  the General Register of Deeds maintained under section 184C of the Conveyancing Act 1919,

(c)  any index kept under section 198 of the Conveyancing Act 1919,

(d)  the Central Register of Restrictions maintained under Part 24 of the Conveyancing Act 1919.

(2)  The Valuer-General is exempt from the provisions of Part 6 of the Act with respect to the Register of Land Values kept under the Valuation of Land Act 1916.

(3)  The Attorney General’s Department is exempt from the provisions of Part 6 of the Act with respect to the register of justices of the peace kept under section 11 of the Justices of the Peace Act 2002.

(4)  The Minister administering the Water Management Act 2000 is exempt from the provisions of Part 6 of the Act with respect to the Water Access Licence Register and the register of approvals kept under section 113 of that Act.

6   General exemption

The Council of the Law Society and the Council of the Bar Association are exempt from all of the provisions of the Act.

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Table of amending instruments

Privacy and Personal Information Protection Regulation 2000 published in Gazette No 81 of 30.6.2000, p 5437 and amended as follows:
Valuation of Land Amendment Act 2000 No 106. Assented to 13.12.2000. Date of commencement of Sch 4.5, 31.12.2000, sec 2 and GG No 168 of 22.12.2000, p 13468.
Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment (Justices of the Peace Register) Regulation 2003 (GG No 191 of 5.12.2003, p 10977)
Water Management Amendment Act 2004 No 39. Assented to 24.6.2004. Date of commencement, 1.7.2004, sec 2 and GG No 110 of 1.7.2004, p 5003.

Table of amendments