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CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE

Part VI - MATCHING PROCEDURES AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA, ETC.

32. Determination of matching procedure request

(1)

The Commissioner shall determine a matching procedure request-

(a)

not later than 45 days after receiving the request; and

(b)

by taking into account the prescribed matters applicable to the request and-

  1. where he is satisfied as to those matters, serving a notice in writing on the requestor stating that he consents to the carrying out of the matching procedure to which the request relates subject to the conditions, if any, specified in the notice;
  2. where he is not so satisfied, serving a notice in writing on the requestor stating-
    (A) that he refuses to consent to the carrying out of the matching procedure to which the request relates; and
    (B) such of those matters in respect of which he is not so satisfied and the reasons why he is not so satisfied.
(2)

For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a consent in a notice under subsection (1)(b)(i) to the carrying out of a matching procedure to which a matching procedure request relates shall not operate to prevent a data user who is neither the requestor nor, where section 31(2) applies to the request, any data user on whose behalf such request was made, from carrying out, whether in whole or in part, the procedure.

(3)

An appeal may be made to the Administrative Appeals Board-

(a)

against-

  1. any conditions specified in a notice under subsection (1)(b)(i); or
  2. any refusal specified in a notice under subsection (l)(b)(ii); and
(b)

by the requestor on whom the notice was served or any data user on whose behalf the matching procedure request concerned was made.

(4) In this section, "prescribed matter" (image) means a matter specified in Schedule 5.

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