Bill
Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2022-03-31. Prime MInister portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Prime MInister
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2022-03-30
- second reading — 2022-03-30
- third reading — 2022-03-30
- introduced — 2022-03-30
- second reading — 2022-03-30
- third reading — 2022-03-30
- other — 2022-03-31
- other — 2022-03-31
- passed — 2022-03-31
- royal assent — 2022-03-31
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-12-09.
This bill changes several existing laws so that the main data sharing scheme works properly.
It allows ASIO to give security advice about accreditation decisions and limits some review rights for foreign entities.
The bill also lets the Information Commissioner transfer privacy complaints to the new National Data Commissioner.
- Amends the ASIO Act to let ASIO provide advice on accreditation decisions under the main bill.
- Excludes some accreditation decisions based on ASIO security assessments from judicial review for foreign entities.
- Clarifies how the FOI Act interacts with the main data sharing scheme.
- Enables the Information Commissioner to send complaints to the National Data Commissioner.
Commonwealth bodies, accredited users, foreign entities, and the Information Commissioner.
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