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PRIVACY ACT 1988 - SECT 60

Compensation and expenses

  (1)   If a determination to which this Division applies includes a declaration of the kind referred to in subparagraph   52(1)(b)(iii), paragraph   52(1A)(d) or subsection   52(3), the complainant or individual is entitled to be paid the amount specified in the declaration.

  (2)   If the determination applies in relation to an agency that has the capacity to sue and be sued, the amount is recoverable as a debt due by the agency to the complainant or individual. In any other case, the amount is recoverable as a debt due by the Commonwealth to the complainant or individual.

  (3)   In this section:

"complainant" , in relation to a representative complaint, means a class member.


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