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Privacy Act 2020

Notifiable privacy breaches and compliance notices - Compliance notices

126: Agency response to compliance notice

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“How an agency must respond when it receives a compliance notice”

If you receive a compliance notice, you must follow its instructions. This includes doing any specific things the notice tells you to do.

You need to act on the notice as quickly as you can after you get it, unless someone has cancelled or paused it. If the notice says you’ve done something wrong, you must fix it by the date given in the notice. However, this date might change.

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Part 6 Notifiable privacy breaches and compliance notices
Compliance notices

126Agency response to compliance notice

  1. An agency that is issued with a compliance notice must take steps to comply with the notice, including taking any particular steps specified in the notice.

  2. The agency must—

  3. comply with the notice as soon as practicable after receiving it unless it is cancelled or suspended; and
    1. if applicable, remedy the breach by the date stated in the notice unless that date is varied or modified.