Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Year 2000 Information Disclosure Act 1999 - SECT 6

Original Year 2000 disclosure statements

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 27 February 1999 and before 1 July 2001; and

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

   (f)  satisfies 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) 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.