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The Ordinance

The Ordinance (Full Text)

CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE

Part V - ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

22. Data correction request

(1)

Subject to subsection (2), where-

(a)	copy of personal data has been supplied by a data user in compliance with a data access request; and

(b)	the individual, or a relevant person on behalf of the individual, who is the data subject considers that the data are inaccurate,

then that individual or relevant person, as the case may be, may make a request that the data user make the necessary correction to the data.

(2)

A data user who, in relation to personal data-

(a)	does not hold the data; but

(b)	controls the processing of the data in such a way as to prohibit the data user who does hold the data from complying (whether in whole or in part) with section 23(1) in relation to a data correction request which relates to the data,

shall be deemed to be a data user to whom such a request may be made, and the provisions of this Ordinance (including subsection (1)) shall be construed accordingly.

(3)

Without prejudice to the generality of sections 23(1)(c) and 25(2), if a data user, subsequent to the receipt of a data correction request but before complying with the request pursuant to section 24 or refusing to comply with the request pursuant to section 25, discloses to a third party the personal data to which the request relates, then the user shall take all practicable steps to advise the third party that the data are the subject of a data correction request still under consideration by the user (or words to the like effect).

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