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CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE
Part V - ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION
OF PERSONAL DATA
21. Notification of refusal
to comply with data access request
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Subject to subsection (2),
a data user who pursuant to section 20 refuses to comply
with a data access request shall, as soon as practicable
but, in any case, not later than 40 days after receiving
the request, by notice in writing inform the requestor-
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of the refusal;
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subject to subsection (2), of the reasons for
the refusal; and
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where section
20(3)(d) is applicable, of the name and address
of the other data user concerned. |
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Where-
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a data user has pursuant to section 20 refused
to comply with a data access request, and
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the refusal also relates to section 18(1)(a)
by virtue of section 63,
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then the data user may, in the notice under subsection
(1) concerned, in place of the matters of which the
data user is required to inform the requestor under
that subsection, inform the requestor that the data
user has no personal data the existence of which he
is required to disclose to the requestor (or words to
the like effect).
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