New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 44

44 Collection and maintenance of electoral information

(1) The Electoral Commissioner is--

(a) to collect such information (
"electoral information" ) as the Electoral Commissioner considers necessary for the maintenance and revision of the Electoral Information Register, and

(b) to maintain and regularly revise that electoral information.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Electoral Commissioner may collect personal information (including a person's telephone and email contact details and any other information or code used to identify a person) relating to a person for the purposes of determining the following--

(a) whether the address for which the person is enrolled is the person's real residence,

(b) if the person is not enrolled--whether the person is entitled to be enrolled for any district.

(3) The Electoral Commissioner (and officers acting under the direction of the Electoral Commissioner) are exempt from any requirements of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 relating to the collection, use or disclosure of personal information to the extent that personal information is collected, used or disclosed for the purposes of or in connection with this section.

(4) In this section,
"personal information" has the same meaning as it has in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 .