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Intelligence and Security Act 2017

Repeals and amendments - Amendments to Privacy Act 1993

314: Section 6 amended (Information privacy principles)

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"Changes to the rules about how agencies use and share your personal information"

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When you look at the law about information privacy, you will see some changes. In the law, there is a part called section 6 that talks about how agencies can use your personal information. Agencies can use your information for a different reason, called a secondary purpose, if they think it is necessary to do their job.

You might wonder how agencies share your information with others. Agencies can share your information if they think it is necessary for them to do their job. This is part of the rules about how agencies can use and share your personal information, which is in section 6.

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Part 8Repeals and amendments
Amendments to Privacy Act 1993

314Section 6 amended (Information privacy principles)

  1. In section 6, principle 10, insert as subclause (2):

  2. In addition to subclause (1), an intelligence and security agency that holds personal information that was obtained in connection with one purpose may use the information for any other purpose (a secondary purpose) if the agency believes on reasonable grounds that the use of the information for the secondary purpose is necessary to enable the agency to perform any of its functions.

  3. In section 6, principle 11, after paragraph (f), insert:

  4. that the disclosure of the information is necessary to enable an intelligence and security agency to perform any of its functions; or