Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRIVACY AMENDMENT ACT 1990 No. 116, 1990 - SECT 6

6. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) "or a file number recipient" and
        substituting ", a file number recipient, a credit reporting agency or
        a credit provider";

   (b)  by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:

"(3A) For the purposes of this Act, an act is only to be taken to have been
done, and a practice is only to be taken to have been engaged in, by a credit
provider that is not a corporation if the act is done, or the practice is
engaged in, in the course of, or for the purposes of, banking (other than
State banking not extending beyond the limits of the State concerned) carried
on by the credit provider.".