Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00055:section:7:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00055
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 122013–123798

(b) the Australian Secret Intelligence Service; or
 (c) the Australian Signals Directorate.
 (1B) Despite subsections (1) and (2), a reference in this Act (other than section 8) to an act or to a practice does not include a reference to the act or practice by an agency with an intelligence role or function (within the meaning of the Office of National Intelligence Act 2018) so far as it involves the disclosure of personal information to the Office of National Intelligence.
 (2) Except so far as the contrary intention appears, a reference in this Act (other than section 8) to an act or to a practice includes, in the application of this Act otherwise than in respect of the Australian Privacy Principles, a registered APP code and the performance of the Commissioner's functions in relation to the principles and such a code, a reference to an act done, or a practice engaged in, as the case may be, by an agency specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 or in Division 1 of Part II of that Schedule other than:
 (a) an intelligence agency;
 (b) the Defence Intelligence Organisation or the Australian Geospatial‑Intelligence Organisation; or
 (c) the ACC or the Board of the ACC.
 (3) Except so far as the contrary intention appears, a reference in this Act to doing an act includes a reference to:
 (a) doing an act in accordance with a practice; or
 (b) refusing or failing to do an act.
 (4) For the purposes of section 28, of paragraphs 28A(2)(a) to (e), of subsection 31(2) and of Part VI, this section has effect as if a reference in subsection (1) of this section to an act done, or to a practice engaged in, included a reference to an act that is proposed to be done, or to a practice that is proposed to be engaged in, as the case may be.