Commonwealth Electoral Legislation (Provision of Information) Act 2000

This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Electoral Legislation (Provision of Information) Act 2000.

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

This section applies to information where:

the Electoral Commission has provided the information on a tape or disk to a person who, at the time the information was provided, was a prescribed authority (within the meaning of subsection 91(10) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918); and

the information was provided under an agreement entered into, on or before 9 May 2000, between the person (or the relevant Agency or authority) and the Electoral Commission; and

the information was provided by the Electoral Commission on or before 8 June 2000.

If this section applies to information, then for all purposes:

the information is taken to have been provided under paragraph 91(4A)(e) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918; and

any use of the information by the person (or the relevant Agency or authority) on or before 30 June 2000 is taken to be use for a purpose that is a permitted purpose in relation to the person (or the relevant Agency or authority); and

any purposes prescribed, after 30 June 2000, for the purposes of paragraph 91A(2A)(c) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 are taken to apply to use of the information in the same way as they would to use of information provided under paragraph 91(4A)(e) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 immediately after 30 June 2000.

If this section applies to information and the information has been incorporated with, or into, other information held by the person (or the relevant Agency or authority) in such a way that either:

the information can no longer be identified as having been supplied by the Electoral Commission; or

the information cannot be removed without rendering the other information unusable;

then, for all purposes, any use of the information by the person (or the relevant Agency or authority) whether before, on or after 30 June 2000 is taken to be use for a purpose that is a permitted purpose in relation to the person (or the relevant Agency or authority).

Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in this section has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

(165/00)

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 4 October 2000

Senate on 11 October 2000]