Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

WORKPLACE PRIVACY ACT 2011

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   3.      Dictionary  
   4.      Notes  
   5.      Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--OBJECT AND IMPORTANT CONCEPTS

   6.      Object of Act  
   7.      Meaning of worker  
   8.      Meaning of employer  
   9.      Meaning of business or undertaking  
   10.     Meaning of workplace  
   11.     Meaning of surveillance etc  

   PART 3--NOTIFIED SURVEILLANCE

           Division 3.1--General

   12.     Meaning of surveillance—pt 3  

           Division 3.2--Notifying workplace surveillance

   13.     Notice of surveillance required  
   14.     Requirement for consultation on proposed surveillance  
   15.     Additional requirements for optical surveillance devices  
   16.     Additional requirements for data surveillance devices  
   17.     Additional requirements for tracking devices  
   18.     Offences—failure to comply with notified surveillance requirements  

           Division 3.3--Other matters

   19.     Surveillance by agreement  
   20.     Offence—restrictions on blocking electronic communication and internet access  
   21.     Notice of blocking electronic communication and internet access  
   22.     Offences—use and disclosure of surveillance records  
   23.     Access to surveillance records of notified surveillance  

   PART 4--COVERT SURVEILLANCE

           Division 4.1--General

   24.     Meaning of covert surveillance—Act  
   25.     Definitions—pt 4  

           Division 4.2--Covert surveillance authorities

   26.     Application for covert surveillance authority  
   27.     Hearing in private  
   28.     Issuing covert surveillance authority  
   29.     Appointing surveillance supervisor  
   30.     Duration of covert surveillance authority  
   31.     Conditions on covert surveillance authority  
   32.     Defects in covert surveillance authority  
   33.     Varying or cancelling covert surveillance authority  
   34.     Magistrates Court to record details of covert surveillance authority  

           Division 4.3--Restrictions on covert surveillance

   35.     Offence—conducting covert surveillance other than under covert surveillance  
   36.     Defences—surveillance for security of workplaces  

           Division 4.4--Reporting on covert surveillance authority

   37.     Offence—failure to give covert surveillance report  
   38.     Orders for covert surveillance record  

           Division 4.5--Covert surveillance records

   39.     Offence—use and disclosure of covert surveillance other than for a relevant  
   40.     Information inadvertently obtained under covert surveillance authority  

   PART 5--PROHIBITED SURVEILLANCE

   41.     Offence—surveillance of private areas etc  
   42.     Surveillance of workers not at work  
   43.     Use and disclosure of certain tracking device records  

   PART 5A--ENFORCEMENT

   43A.    The regulator  
   43B.    Inspectors  
   43C.    Functions and powers of inspectors  
   43D.    Securing compliance  
   43E.    Enforcement measures  

   PART 6--MISCELLANEOUS

   44.     Offences—security of surveillance records  
   47.     Regulation-making power  
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