New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 59S

59S Exemption for eligible data breaches of multiple public sector agencies

(1) This section applies if--

(a) the access, disclosure or loss that constituted an eligible data breach of the public sector agency is a breach of at least 1 other public sector agency, and

(b) an assessment has been carried out for each of the public sector agencies involved in the breach under Division 2, and

(c) the heads of each of the public sector agencies involved in the breach have notified the Privacy Commissioner under section 59M.

(2) The head of a public sector agency is exempt from Division 3, Subdivision 3 if the head of another public sector agency involved in the same breach undertakes to notify the eligible data breach under the Subdivision.