Legislation

Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

Version: Compilation No. 104, 4 June 2026
Last read: 23 September 2026

The Act behind the Australian Privacy Principles and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. It also carries the definitions that settle which organisations the principles reach, including how a small business providing a health service is treated, which is the part of the Act small operators reach for last.

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ClinicTrace Australia cites this source in 3 records and checks, and tells a clinic holding one of them when the source changes. See it on the register for Queensland or New South Wales.

Whether a source applies to a particular clinic, and what it means for that clinic, is a question for the clinic and its own advisers. Nothing here is legal advice.