Statute
Section 20L — Privacy Act 1988: Adoption of government related identifiers
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(1) If: (a) a credit reporting body holds credit reporting information about an individual; and (b) the information is a government related identifier of the individual; the body must not adopt the government related identifier as its own identifier of the individual. Civil penalty: 2,000 penalty units. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the adoption of the government related identifier is required or authorised by or under an Australian law or a court/tribunal order.
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