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Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Rules 2024

I, Katy Gallagher, Minister for Finance, make the following instrument.

Dated 7 November 2024

Katy Gallagher
Minister for Finance

Contents
Chapter 1—Preliminary
1.1  Name
1.2  Commencement
1.3  Authority
1.4  Definitions
1.5  Schedules
Chapter 2—Transitional and application rules
Part 1—Accreditation
2.1  Entities taken to be accredited immediately after commencement
Part 2—Approval to participate in the Australian Government Digital ID System
2.2  Accredited entities taken to be approved to participate in the Australian Government Digital ID System immediately after commencement
2.3  Relying parties taken to be approved to participate in the Australian Government Digital ID System immediately after commencement
2.4  Relying parties taken to be approved to participate in the Australian Government Digital ID System on a specified date after commencement
Part 3—Transitional liability arrangements
2.5  Application of statutory contract provisions in the Digital ID Act
Part 4—Other modifications to the Act
2.6  References to myGovID in the Act
Part 5—Other modifications to the Digital ID Act
2.7  Conditions on accreditation relating to restricted attributes of individuals
Schedule 1—Tables
Table 1 – Entities taken to be approved as accredited entities immediately after commencement
Table 2 – Relying parties taken to be approved to participate in the Australian Government Digital ID System immediately after commencement
Table 3 – Relying parties taken to be approved to participate in the Australian Government Digital ID System on a specified date after commencement

Chapter 1—Preliminary

1.1  Name
  These rules are the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Rules 2024.

1.2  Commencement
  These rules commence at the same time as the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2024 commences.

1.3  Authority
  These rules are made under item 10 of Schedule 1 to the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2024.
Note 1: Item 10 of Schedule 1 to the Act (the Schedule) relevantly provides that:
(a) the Minister may make rules prescribing matters required or permitted by the Schedule to be prescribed by the rules, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Schedule;
(b) without limiting the rule-making power mentioned in paragraph (a), the rules may prescribe matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to the enactment of the Schedule or the Digital ID Act;
(c) rules made for the purposes of item 10 of the Schedule before the end of 12 months after commencement may provide that the Act or the Digital ID Act have effect with any modifications prescribed by the rules; and
(d) subject to the limitations in subitem 10(4) of the Schedule, the Act does not limit the rules that may be made.
Note 2: Subitem 10(4) of the Schedule