New South Wales Consolidated Acts

YEAR 2000 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ACT 1999 - SECT 6

6 Original Year 2000 disclosure statements

(1) For the purposes of this Act, an "original Year 2000 disclosure statement" is a statement that:

(a) relates solely to any or all of the following:

(i) Year 2000 processing,

(ii) the detection of problems relating to Year 2000 processing,

(iii) the prevention of problems relating to Year 2000 processing,

(iv) the remediation of problems relating to Year 2000 processing,

(v) the consequences or implications, for the supply of goods or services, of problems relating to Year 2000 processing,

(vi) contingency planning, risk management, remediation efforts or other arrangements for dealing with consequences or implications referred to in subparagraph (v),

(vii) the consequences or implications, for the activities or capabilities of a person, of problems relating to Year 2000 processing,

(viii) contingency planning, risk management, remediation efforts or other arrangements for dealing with consequences or implications referred to in subparagraph (vii), and

(b) includes words to the effect that the statement is a Year 2000 disclosure statement for the purposes of this Act or a corresponding law, and

(c) includes words to the effect that a person may be protected by this Act or a corresponding law from liability for the statement in certain circumstances, and

(d) is made after the commencement of this section and before 1 July 2001, and

(e) identifies the person who authorised the statement, and

(f) satisfies at least one of the following conditions:

(i) the statement is made in writing,

(ii) the statement is made in a data storage device and is capable of being reproduced in writing from that device (with or without the aid of any other article or device),

(iii) the statement is made by way of an electronic communication of writing.

(2) The subparagraphs of subsection (1) (a) do not limit each other.

(3) The provisions of subsection (1) (b), (c), (d) and (e) do not apply to a statement that appears in a document to which access is given under the Freedom of Information Act 1989 on or after 27 February 1999 so long as the statement became part of the document before 1 July 2001.

(4) A statement is taken to comply with subsection (1) (b) and (c) if the statement includes the following words:

This statement is a Year 2000 disclosure statement for the purposes of the Year 2000 Information Disclosure Act 1999 . A person may be protected by that Act from liability for this statement in certain circumstances.