Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

(1) Schedule 1, item 14, page 5 (before line 17), before subsection 13G(2), insert:

(1A) Subsection (1) is a civil penalty provision.

Note: Section 80U deals with civil penalty provisions in this Act.

This amendment inserts a new subsection 13G(1A) to make it clear on the face of the legislation that section 13G of the Privacy Act is a civil penalty provision and triggers part 4 of the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014. This technical amendment expressly clarifies that the increased penalties proposed in this bill are civil penalties. The amendment will enable the updated civil penalty provision in section 13G to be enforced under the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act. I table a supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to the government amendment to be moved to this bill.