Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRIVACY ACT 1988 No. 119, 1988 - SECT 9

9. (1) An agency that collects personal information shall be treated, for the
purposes of this Act, as a collector in relation to that information.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), where personal information is collected by a
person:

   (a)  in the course of the person's employment by, or in the service of, an
        agency other than the Australian Federal Police; or

   (b)  as a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police in the
        performance of his or her duties as such a member or special member;
        then, for the purposes of this Act:

   (c)  if paragraph (a) applies-the agency first referred to in that
        paragraph; and

   (d)  if paragraph (b) applies-the Australian Federal Police; shall be
        treated as a collector in relation to that information.

(3) Where personal information is collected by a person for the purposes of
the activities of, an unincorporated body, being a board, council, committee,
sub-committee or other body established by or under a Commonwealth enactment
for the purpose of assisting, or performing functions connected with, an
agency, that agency shall be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as a
collector in relation to that information.