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VICTORIAN DATA SHARING ACT 2017 (NO. 60 OF 2017) - SECT 1

Purposes

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to establish the office of Chief Data Officer; and

        (b)     to promote the sharing and use of public sector data as a public resource that supports government policy making, service planning and design; and

        (c)     to remove barriers that impede the sharing of identifiable data with the Chief Data Officer or with data analytics bodies, and to facilitate the sharing of data across the public sector; and

        (d)     to provide protections in connection with data sharing under this Act, by—

              (i)     specifying the purposes of data sharing, and the circumstances in which sharing of identifiable data is permitted; and

              (ii)     ensuring that data that is handled under this Act is protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure; and

        (e)     to make consequential and other amendments to other Acts.



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