PRIVACY ACT 1988 - SECT 20L Adoption of government related identifiers

PRIVACY ACT 1988 - SECT 20L

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a credit reporting body holds credit reporting information about an individual; and

  (b)   the information is a government related identifier of the individual;

the body must not adopt the government related identifier as its own identifier of the individual.

Civil penalty:   2,000 penalty units.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if the adoption of the government related identifier is required or authorised by or under an Australian law or a court/tribunal order.