The Ordinance
The Ordinance (Full Text)
CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE
Part I - PRELIMINARY
2. Interpretation (cont.)
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"Commissioner"([Image]) means the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data established under section 5(1); "Committee" ([Image]) means the Personal Data (Privacy) Advisory Committee established under section 11(1); "complainant" ([Image]) means the individual, or the relevant person on behalf of an individual, who has made a complaint; "complaint" ([Image]) means a complaint under section 37; "correction" ([Image]) , in relation to personal data, means rectification, erasure or completion; "daily penalty" ([Image]) means a penalty for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction therefor; "data" ([Image]) means any representation of information (including an expression of opinion) in any document, and includes a personal identifier; "data access request" ([Image]) means a request under section 18; "data correction request" ([Image]) means a request under section 22 (1); "data protection principle" ([Image]) means any of the data protection principles set out in Schedule 1; "data subject" ([Image]), in relation to personal data, means the individual who is the subject of the data; "data user" ([Image]) in relation to personal data, means a person who, either alone or jointly or in common with other persons, controls the collection, holding, processing or use of the data; "data user return" ([Image]) means a data user return referred to in section 14(4); "disclosing" ([Image]), in relation to personal data, includes disclosing information inferred from the data; |
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