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Privacy Act 2020

Information privacy principles and codes of practice - Information privacy principles

26: Restricted application of IPP 13 to unique identifiers assigned before 1 July 1993

You could also call this:

"Older ID numbers have slightly different privacy rules"

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If you are given a unique identifier, there are rules about how it can be used. These rules are called Information Privacy Principles, or IPP for short. IPP 13 has parts that do not apply to unique identifiers given out before 1 July 1993.

If you are given a unique identifier on or after 1 July 1993, some rules still apply. This is true even if you were given the same identifier by another agency before 1 July 1993. You can find more information about this by looking at the Privacy Act 2020 and previous laws like the one mentioned in s 8(5), (6).

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Part 3Information privacy principles and codes of practice
Information privacy principles

26Restricted application of IPP 13 to unique identifiers assigned before 1 July 1993

  1. IPP 13(1) to (4)(a) does not apply to unique identifiers assigned before 1 July 1993.

  2. However, IPP 13(2) applies to the assignment of a unique identifier on or after 1 July 1993 even if the unique identifier assigned is the same as that assigned by another agency before that date.

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