Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00160:section:49:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00160
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 49 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 86927–88665

management by accredited entities of the potential for biometric systems to selectively disadvantage or discriminate against groups of individuals.
 (7) Without limiting paragraph (6)(c), Accreditation Rules made for the purposes of that paragraph may prescribe requirements in relation to the following matters:
 (a) the purposes for which testing may be undertaken;
 (b) the kinds of testing that may be undertaken using biometric information;
 (c) the circumstances in which testing of the biometric information may be undertaken;
 (d) the manner in which the biometric information that has been retained for testing must be destroyed;
 (e) the preparation, content, approval and implementation of ethics plans relating to the testing of the biometric information;
 (f) obtaining express consent of individuals to whom the biometric information relates;
 (g) reporting of testing results to the Digital ID Regulator.
 (8) An accredited entity is authorised to retain, use or disclose biometric information of an individual if:
 (a) the entity collected the information in accordance with subsection (1); and
 (b) the information is retained, used or disclosed for the purposes of preventing or investigating a digital ID fraud incident; and
 (c) the entity complies with any requirements prescribed by the Accreditation Rules.
 (9) Without limiting paragraph (8)(c), Accreditation Rules made for the purposes of that paragraph may prescribe requirements in relation to the following matters:
 (a) the manner in which biometric information that has been retained for preventing or investigating digital ID fraud incidents must be destroyed;
 (b) the reporting of fraud prevention or investigation activities to the Digital ID Regulator.