1Purposes

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.