Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing Act 2024

Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing (Privacy) Amendment Regulations 2026

 

 

Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing (Privacy) Amendment Regulations 2026

Contents

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Regulations amended1

4.Regulation 3 replaced1

3.Making documents publicly available (Act s. 149)1

3A.Giving documents by electronic means2

 

Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing Act 2024

Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing (Privacy) Amendment Regulations 2026

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.Citation

These regulations are the Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing (Privacy) Amendment Regulations 2026.

2.Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published on the WA legislation website;

(b)the rest of the regulations — on 1 July 2026.

3.Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing (Privacy) Regulations 2025.

4.Regulation 3 replaced

Delete regulation 3 and insert:

 

3.Making documents publicly available (Act s. 149)

If a provision of Part 2 of the Act requires or permits the Information Commissioner to make a document publicly available, the Commissioner must comply with that requirement or exercise that power by —

(a)publishing the document on a website maintained by, or on behalf of, the Information Commissioner; and

(b)making a hard copy of the document available for inspection on request during business hours at the principal office of the Information Commissioner.

Example for this regulation:

Privacy guidelines must be made publicly available under section 148(4) of the Act.

3A.Giving documents by electronic means

(1)A notice or other document that is required or permitted to be given to the Information Commissioner under Part 2 of the Act may be given by —

(a)sending it in an electronic form to an email address of the Information Commissioner specified on a website maintained by, or on behalf of, the Information Commissioner for that purpose; or

(b)lodging it in an electronic form using an online system maintained by, or on behalf of, the Information Commissioner for that purpose.

(2)A notice or other document that is required or permitted to be given to a person by the Information Commissioner under Part 2 of the Act may be given by —

(a)if the person has provided an email address for giving documents — sending it in an electronic form to the email address provided by the person; or

(b)making it available to the person in an electronic form using an online system maintained by, or on behalf of, the Information Commissioner for that purpose and notifying the person by email sent to an email address provided by the person that it is available.

(3)The notice or other document is taken to be given —

(a)if given under subregulation (1)(a) — at the time it reaches the email address of the Information Commissioner; or

(b)if given under subregulation (2)(a) — at the time it reaches the email address provided by the person; or

(c)if given under subregulation (1)(b) or (2)(b) — at the time it is lodged or made available in the online system.

(4)This regulation does not limit the application of the Interpretation Act 1984 sections 75 and 76 to the notice or other document.

 

N. HAGLEY, Clerk of the Executive Council

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