Section 20L — Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

(1) If:

(a) a credit reporting body holds credit reporting information about an individual; and

(b) the information is a government related identifier of the individual;

the body must not adopt the government related identifier as its own identifier of the individual.

Civil penalty: 2,000 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the adoption of the government related identifier is required or authorised by or under an Australian law or a court/tribunal order.

Related sections

• s 20H — Use or disclosure of pre‑screening assessments
• s 20J — Destruction of pre‑screening assessment
• s 20K — No use or disclosure of credit reporting information during a ban period
• s 20M — Use or disclosure of credit reporting information that is de‑identified
• s 20N — Quality of credit reporting information
• s 20P — False or misleading credit reporting information

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