Section 59P - Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 - Public notification

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59P Public notification

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a notification is required to be given under section 59N(2), or

(b) the head of an agency decides to give a notification under this section.

(2) The head of a public sector agency must keep a register that is available on the public sector agency’s website (a public notification register).

(3) The notification must, if it is reasonably practicable for the information to be provided—

(a) be published on the public notification register for at least 12 months after the date the notification is published, and

(b) include the information specified in section 59O, except to the extent the information—

(i) contains personal information, or

(ii) would prejudice the agency’s functions.

(4) As soon as practicable after the notification is published, the agency must provide the Privacy Commissioner with information about how to access the notification on the public notification register.

(5) The Privacy Commissioner must publish on the Privacy Commissioner’s website information about how to access the notification for at least 12 months after the date the notification is published.

Example of information about how to access a notification—

A link to the website on which the notification is published.

s 59P: Ins 2022 No 74, Sch 1[11].