Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 Proclamation re commencement (1999-13) [GG No 10 of 22.1.1999, p 175] (NSW)

1999 No 13

New South Wales

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION

ACT 1998 No 133-PROCLAMATION

(L.S.) GORDON SAMUELS, Governor.

I, the Honourable Gordon Samuels AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 February 1999 as the day on which the following provisions of that Act commence:

(a)	Division 1 of Part 4,
(b)	sections 60, 71 (l) , 72 and 74,
(c)	section 73 (but only to the extent that it repeals sections 4–13 of the Privacy Committee Act 1975),
(d)	Schedules 1, 2 and 3.8,
(e)	clauses 1 and 2 of Schedule 4.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 20th day of January 1999.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JEFFREY SHAW, Q.C., M.L.C.,

Attorney General

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Proclamation is to commence those provisions of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 that relate to the appointment of the Privacy

Commissioner, the staff of the Privacy Commissioner, the establishment of the Privacy Advisory Committee and the repeal of certain provisions of the Privacy Committee Act

1975.

Published in Gazette No 10 of 22 January 1999, page 175