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Privacy Act 1988
20LAdoption of government related identifiers
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#### 20L Adoption of government related identifiers
(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.