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Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014
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1 Purposes
The purposes of this Act are—
(a) to provide for responsible collection and handling of personal information in the Victorian public sector; and
(b) to provide remedies for interferences with the information privacy of an individual; and
(c) to establish a protective data security regime for the Victorian public sector; and
(d) to establish a regime for monitoring and assuring public sector data security; and
S. 1(e) substituted by No. 20/2017 s. 78.
(e) to provide for the appointment of the Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner; and
(f) to repeal the **Information Privacy
Act 2000** and the **Commissioner for Law Enforcement Data Security Act 2005** and make consequential amendments to other Acts.