The ABCB is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) outlined in Schedule 1 of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act), which regulates how entities may collect, use, disclose and store personal information.
Personal and sensitive information is being collected by the ABCB Office to assist the ABCB to carry out its functions including to inform this consultation process and for other purposes including to communicate with individuals or organisations about their submission.
The personal and sensitive information collected as part of the consultation process may be disclosed to and used by the following individuals or organisations:
Personal and sensitive information obtained will be stored and held in accordance with the ABCB’s obligations under the Archives Act 1983 (Cth). Further information about how the ABCB collects, uses and discloses personal information is set out in its Privacy Policy.
If you have an enquiry or request relating to your personal information, please contact:
Privacy Contact Officer
Australian Building Codes Board
GPO Box 2013
Canberra ACT 2601
All submissions and comments will be published unless they are marked ‘commercial-in-confidence’, or where "do not publish" is selected at the beginning of this survey.
Any contact details you provide within your submission will be redacted prior to your submission being published.
In order to promote debate and transparency, the ABCB prefers that all submissions and comments be provided in a way that does not require confidentiality to be maintained. However, it recognises that in some circumstances you may want to provide information in confidence.
It is the responsibility of the person making the submission to ensure that any ‘commercial-in-confidence’ information is clearly identified. Please consider if you can structure your response to keep only some parts confidential. If only part of your submission is confidential, you can provide the confidential part as a separate submission so that the ABCB can publish the non-confidential part of the submission.
Where confidentiality is requested for an entire submission, it will not be published by the ABCB, nor will your name or organisation details.
Please note that we may still disclose the confidential part of your submission to any of the above identified users of the information as part of the consultation process and we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the recipients keep the submission confidential.
The ABCB or the ABCB Office may also disclose confidential information in circumstances where:
Your submission, comments, opinions and responses will not be published if the ABCB or the ABCB Office considers that your submission, comments, opinions and responses may contain potentially defamatory statements or other offensive comments.