Section 26WJPrivacy Act 1988 (Cth)

Exception—eligible data breaches of other entities

If:

(a) an entity complies with section 26WH in relation to an eligible data breach of the entity; and

(b) the access, disclosure or loss that constituted the eligible data breach of the entity is an eligible data breach of one or more other entities;

that section does not apply in relation to those eligible data breaches of those other entities.

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