Australian Centre for Disease Control Act 2025

A provision of this Division that authorises the collection, use or disclosure of information (an authorisation provision) has effect despite:

any other written law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory, whether enacted before or after the commencement of this Act; and

any unwritten law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory.

Despite subsection (1), an authorisation provision is subject to the designated secrecy laws.

To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not prevent the Privacy Act 1988 applying to the information mentioned in that subsection.

An authorisation provision constitutes an authorisation for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988, but personal information to which an authorisation provision applies is otherwise subject to that Act.