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1998-1999-2000
The Parliament
of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Commonwealth
Electoral Legislation (Provision of Information) Bill
2000
No. ,
2000
(Finance and
Administration)
A Bill for an Act to
provide for the use of information provided under the Commonwealth Electoral
Act 1918, and for other purposes
ISBN: 0642
451842
Contents
A Bill for an Act to provide for the use of information
provided under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, and for other
purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Electoral Legislation
(Provision of Information) Act 2000.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
(1) This section applies to information where:
(a) the Electoral Commission has provided the information on a tape or
disk to a person who, at the time the information was provided, was a prescribed
authority (within the meaning of subsection 91(10) of the Commonwealth
Electoral Act 1918); and
(b) the information was provided under an agreement entered into, on or
before 9 May 2000, between the person (or the relevant Agency or authority)
and the Electoral Commission; and
(c) the information was provided by the Electoral Commission on or before
8 June 2000.
(2) If this section applies to information, then for all
purposes:
(a) the information is taken to have been provided under paragraph
91(4A)(e) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918; and
(b) any use of the information by the person (or the relevant Agency or
authority) on or before 30 June 2000 is taken to be use for a purpose that
is a permitted purpose in relation to the person (or the relevant Agency or
authority); and
(c) any purposes prescribed, after 30 June 2000, for the purposes of
paragraph 91A(2A)(c) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 are taken to
apply to use of the information in the same way as they would to use of
information provided under paragraph 91(4A)(e) of the Commonwealth Electoral
Act 1918 immediately after 30 June 2000.
(3) If this section applies to information and the information has been
incorporated with, or into, other information held by the person (or the
relevant Agency or authority) in such a way that either:
(a) the information can no longer be identified as having been supplied by
the Electoral Commission; or
(b) the information cannot be removed without rendering the other
information unusable;
then, for all purposes, any use of the information by the person (or the
relevant Agency or authority) whether before, on or after 30 June 2000 is
taken to be use for a purpose that is a permitted purpose in relation to the
person (or the relevant Agency or authority).
(4) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in this
section has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Electoral Act
1918.