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Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016

Type	Government
Originating house	House of Representatives
Status	Act
Portfolio	Attorney-General

Summary

Implements recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s Advisory report on the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014 and the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice by amending the Privacy Act 1988 to require agencies, organisations and certain other entities to provide notice to the Australian Information Commissioner and affected individuals of an eligible data breach.

Progress of bill

For committee reference information, please see the Notes section at the end of this page.

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	19/10/16
Second reading moved	19/10/16
Second reading debate	07/02/17
Second reading agreed to	07/02/17
Third reading agreed to	07/02/17

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	08/02/17
Second reading moved	08/02/17
Second reading debate	13/02/17
Second reading agreed to	13/02/17
Committee of the Whole debate	13/02/17
Third reading agreed to	13/02/17

Finally passed both Houses	13/02/17
Assent	22/02/17	Act no: 12 - Year: 2017