If you receive a transfer prohibition notice, you must follow it. A transfer prohibition notice is an official order that stops you from sending someone’s personal information to another country. If you don’t follow this order and you don’t have a good reason, you are breaking the law. This is called an offence. If you are found guilty of this offence in court, you might have to pay a fine. The most you could be fined is $10,000. This law helps protect people’s personal information from being sent to other countries when it shouldn’t be.
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196: Commissioner may vary or cancel transfer prohibition notice, or
“Privacy Commissioner can alter or remove notice restricting overseas data transfers”
198: Appeals against transfer prohibition notice, or
“How to challenge a notice that stops you from sending personal information overseas”
Every person who, without reasonable excuse, fails or refuses to comply with a transfer prohibition notice commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.
