Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009

In this Act, personal information means information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database and whether or not recorded in a material form) about an individual (whether living or dead) whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained from the information or opinion.

Personal information includes such things as an individual’s fingerprints, retina prints, body samples or genetic characteristics.

Personal information does not include any of the following—

information about an individual who has been dead for more than 30 years,

information about an individual (comprising the individual’s name and non-personal contact details, including the individual’s position title, public functions and the agency in which the individual works) that reveals nothing more than the fact that the person was engaged in the exercise of public functions,

information about an individual that is of a class, or is contained in a document of a class, prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subclause.