48ZEKeeping personal information listed

48ZE Keeping personal information listed

[Section 48ZE Inserted by No. 35 of 2011, s. 8, Applied:01 Jan 2012]

(1)  In this section –

national privacy principles means the principles stated in Schedule 3 of the Privacy Act 1988 of the Commonwealth.

(2)  A database operator must not keep personal information about a particular person in the operator's residential tenancy database for longer than –

(a) 3 years; or

(b) if, under the national privacy principles, the operator of the database is required to remove the personal information before the end of the 3-year period mentioned in paragraph (a) , the period ending when the information must be removed under the national privacy principles.

(3)  However, a database operator may keep the person's name in the operator's residential tenancy database for longer than the period stated in subsection (2)(a) or (b) if –

(a) other personal information about the person in the database is attached to the name; and

(b) the other personal information is not required to be removed under subsection (2) or another law.

(4)  This section does not limit the operation of another provision of these model provisions or a provision of another law that requires the removal of the personal information.