What the official record says
This Act is the Privacy (Giving Privacy Commissioner Necessary Tools) Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. This Act amends the Privacy Act 1993 (the ). The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the Privacy Commissioner has sufficient investigative and enforcement powers. In section 13(1), after paragraph (a), insert: to conduct audits of an agency’s practices and systems for handling personal information and the personal information maintained by that agency for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the information is maintained according to the information privacy principles. After section 92, insert: The Commissioner may issue a notice to an agency that is found to be in breach of this Act requiring that agency to