Privacy Amendment (Protection of Australian Farms) Regulations 2019 (Cth)

Privacy Amendment (Protection of Australian Farms) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 04 April 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Privacy Amendment (Protection of Australian Farms) Regulations 2019.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	6 April 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Privacy Act 1988.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Privacy Regulation 2013

1

Before subsection 7(1)

Insert:

Aussie Farms Inc.

1. (1A)

   For the purposes of subsection 6E(1) of the Act, Aussie Farms Inc (ABN 17 356 117 654) is prescribed.

Small business operators that operate residential tenancy databases

2

At the end of Part 5

Add:

23Application of the Privacy Amendment (Protection of Australian Farms) Regulations 2019

Subsection 7(1A) applies in relation to acts done, and practices engaged in, after the commencement of the Privacy Amendment (Protection of Australian Farms) Regulations 2019 (whether in relation to personal information collected before or after that commencement).