Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRIVACY ACT 1988 No. 119, 1988 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision to protect the privacy of individuals,
and for related purposes 

WHEREAS Australia is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, the English text of which is set out in Schedule 2 to the
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986:
AND WHEREAS, by that Covenant, Australia has undertaken to adopt such
legislative measures as may be necessary to give effect to the right of
persons not to be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with their
privacy, family, home or correspondence:
AND WHEREAS Australia is a member of the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development:
AND WHEREAS the Council of that Organisation has recommended that member
countries take into account in their domestic legislation the principles
concerning the protection of privacy and individual liberties set forth in
Guidelines annexed to the recommendation:
AND WHEREAS Australia has informed that Organisation that it will participate
in the recommendation concerning those Guidelines:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows: