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Managing Legal Risks Online: A Guide for Victorian Government Web sites

Whole of Victorian Government WMF Guideline

Managing Legal Risks Online: A guide for Victorian government websites

Short Description

This guideline provides general advice on identifying and managing legal risks within an online environment.

Identifier: WEB/GUIDE/07
Version number: 2.0
Date first issued: May 2001
Date of effect: 1 October 2010

Owner: Government Services Division, Department of Treasury and Finance, Victorian Government

Issuing authority: Government Services Division, Department of Treasury and Finance, Victorian Government

Introduction

This Whole of Victorian Government (WoVG) guideline is designed to assist those who have responsibility for designing, developing and operating Victorian Government websites to manage the relevant legal and regulatory issues.

The focus is on the delivery of websites by the public sector. It is intended to deal with practical issues, to describe and explain the legal and regulatory terrain and frameworks, and to set out the techniques that should be used to address and manage concerns.

The information technology landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade and although this manual attempts to look into the future, invariably the development of law may not be able to keep abreast of information technology. Readers should consider this fact within the context of their own website and assess the legal and regulatory environment independently if necessary. Critically, it should be noted that this guideline is not designed to provide definitive legal advice and further advice should be sought to take into account specific circumstances.

Finally, those engaged in website design, development and management should also be aware of their compliance obligations with regard to whole of Victorian Government (WoVG) policies, standards and guidelines, particularly those within the Website Management Framework (WMF).

The Managing Legal Risks Online: A guide for Victorian government websites is available in pdf format (454kb) from the Department of Treasury and Finance (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). You can also convert PDF documents into alternative formats.

Last updated: 20 October 2010 Tweet

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