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Greenleaf, Graham --- "Victoria joins the race for private sector privacy laws" [1996] PrivLawPRpr 29; (1996) 3(3) Privacy Law & Policy Reporter 43
Victoria joins the race for private sector privacy laws
The
Victorian Treasurer and Minister for Multimedia, Alan Stockdale, has released
details of privacy legislation to be introduced
in Victoria by the end of the
year, according to the Sunday Age (14 July 1996). However, Mr
Stockdale's announcement was a little premature, as the proposal has not yet
gone through Cabinet, but
will go to Cabinet shortly.
Mr Stockdale said that, as well as applying to Victoria's public sector, the
new laws are also likely to apply to the private sector,
and that the
government was `looking at whether the scope of state responsibility means we
have to augment the federal laws'. National
uniformity was desirable, he said.
One detail that is known is that a Data Protection Advisory Council, to be
chaired by Victor Perton MP, will act as a `taskforce'
to develop the law. Its
terms of reference and membership are not yet announced. The Age had
reported it would also examine issues such as internet censorship, but its
title indicates otherwise.
All
current appointments to the NSW Privacy Committee terminate at the end of
August 1996, in recognition of NSW Attorney-General
Jeff Shaw's optimism that
he would have his proposed Privacy and Data Protection law (see 3 PLPR 17)
he would have his proposed Privacy and Data Protection law (see 3 PLPR 17)
operative by then. However, it has not yet been introduced to Parliament. A
spokesman for Mr Shaw said that it was expected that
the Bill would be
introduced early in the September sitting of Parliament, and was still planned
to be operative by year's end. Meanwhile,
new appointments will have to be made
to the Privacy Committee that refuses to die.
The
Federal Coalition is following up on its ambiguous election promises concerning
privacy (see 3 PLPR 1) with active consideration of legislation to extend the
Privacy Act to cover the private sector that the Attorney-General's Department
has had under development for more than six months. Attorney-General Williams
has said he will make an announcement in the next couple
of months.
Graham Greenleaf, General Editor.
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