Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIVACY ACT 1988 - SECT 13

                   For the purposes of this Act, an act or practice is an interference with the privacy of an individual if the act or practice:

                     (a)  in the case of an act or practice engaged in by an agency (whether or not the agency is also a file number recipient, credit reporting agency or credit provider)--breaches an Information Privacy Principle in relation to personal information that relates to the individual;

                     (b)  in the case of an act or practice engaged in by a file number recipient (whether or not the file number recipient is also an agency, organisation, credit reporting agency or credit provider)--breaches a guideline under section 17 in relation to tax file number information that relates to the individual;

                    (ba)  constitutes a breach of Part 2 of the Data‑matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Act 1990 or the guidelines in force under that Act;

                    (bb)  constitutes a breach of the guidelines in force under section 135AA of the National Health Act 1953 ;

                     (c)  involves an unauthorised requirement or request for disclosure of the tax file number of the individual; or

                     (d)  in the case of an act or practice engaged in by a credit reporting agency or credit provider (whether or not the credit reporting agency or credit provider is also an agency, organisation or file number recipient)--constitutes a credit reporting infringement in relation to personal information that relates to the individual.