Commonwealth Numbered Acts

YEAR 2000 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ACT 1999No. 2, 1999 - SECT 8

(a) relates solely to any or all of the following:

(i) Year 2000 processing;

(ii) the detection of problems relating to Year 2000 processing;

(iii) the prevention of problems relating to Year 2000 processing;

(iv) the remediation of problems relating to Year 2000 processing;

(v) the consequences or implications, for the supply of goods or services, of problems relating to Year 2000 processing;

(vi) contingency planning, risk management, remediation efforts or other arrangements for dealing with consequences or implications referred to in subparagraph (v);

(vii) the consequences or implications, for the activities or capabilities of a person, of problems relating to Year 2000 processing;

(viii) contingency planning, risk management, remediation efforts or other arrangements for dealing with consequences or implications referred to in subparagraph (vii); and

(b) includes words to the effect that the statement is a Year 2000 disclosure statement for the purposes of this Act; and

(c) includes words to the effect that a person may be protected by this Act from liability for the statement in certain circumstances; and

(d) is made after the commencement of this section and before 1 July 2001; and

(e) identifies the person who authorised the statement; and

(f) satisfies one of the following conditions:

(i) the statement is made in writing;

(ii) the statement is made in a data storage device and is capable of being reproduced in writing from that device (with or without the aid of any other article or device);

(iii) the statement is made by way of an electronic communication of writing.

(3) A statement is taken to comply with paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) if the statement includes the following words:

This statement is a Year 2000 disclosure statement for the purposes of the Year 2000 Information Disclosure Act 1999 . A person may be protected by that Act from liability for this statement in certain circumstances.