14Attorney‑General's Department

14 Attorney‑General's Department

If an office known as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is established by legislation before 1 July 1999, this Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission under subdivision 1 of Division 128 in the Schedule were:

(a) an appropriation to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the purposes of meeting the running costs of that body in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1999; and

(b) an appropriation to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (under that name or as renamed as the Human Rights and Responsibilities Commission) of the balance of that amount for the purposes stated in that subdivision.