Legislation
The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 regulates how we deal with the personal information we collect and store.
The Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 protects health-related personal information.
Privacy Management Plan
The Privacy Management Plan provides details about the privacy principles that we must follow when dealing with personal information. It also provides information on:
- how to access your personal information that is held by us
- how we handle complaints about privacy
- what your rights are if you are not happy with a decision we’ve made about your privacy.
Public registers
Our Public registers contain personal information that is required by law to be made publicly available or open to public inspection.
We maintain and operate a number of public registers established under different legislation.
More information
For more information about privacy, email the department's Information Access and Privacy Unit at [email protected] or go to the Information and Privacy Commission website.