New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PRIVACY CODE OF PRACTICE (GENERAL) 2003 - REG 19

19 Definitions

(1) In this Part:
"CVS" means the Certificate Validation Service operated by the Registry on behalf of the Council of Australasian Registrars for Births, Deaths and Marriages.
"DVS" means the National Document Verification Service managed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department.
"issuing agency" means:

(a) in relation to the CVS, a State or Territory Government agency that:

(i) issues proof of identity documents, and

(ii) is authorised to receive and respond to validation requests, and

(b) in relation to the DVS, a Commonwealth, State or Territory Government agency that:

(i) issues proof of identity documents, and

(ii) is authorised to receive and respond to validation requests.

"proof of identity document" means:

(a) any certificate issued by the Registry under section 49 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 , and

(b) a document issued by any other issuing agency that may be used to establish a person’s identity.

"the Registry" means the Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages.
"user agency" means:

(a) in relation to the CVS, a government or non-government agency or organisation that is authorised to use the CVS to verify personal information contained in documents presented to it as proof of identity documents, and

(b) in relation to the DVS, a Commonwealth, State or Territory Government agency that is authorised to use the DVS to verify personal information contained in documents presented to it as proof of identity documents.

"validation request" means a request made through the CVS or the DVS by a user agency to verify personal information contained in a document presented to the user agency as a proof of identity document issued by an issuing agency.

(2) A reference in this Part to the Registry includes a reference to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages and the Registrar’s staff.