PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION ACT 2014 (NO. 60 OF 2014) - SECT 1 Purposes

PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION ACT 2014 (NO. 60 OF 2014) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to provide for responsible collection and handling of personal information in the Victorian public sector; and

        (b)     to provide remedies for interferences with the information privacy of an individual; and

        (c)     to establish a protective data security regime for the Victorian public sector; and

        (d)     to establish a regime for monitoring and assuring public sector data security; and

        (e)     to establish the Commissioner for Privacy and Data Protection; and

        (f)     to repeal the Information Privacy Act 2000 and the Commissioner for Law Enforcement Data Security Act 2005 and make consequential amendments to other Acts.