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63: Decision on request to correct personal information
or “How an organisation responds when you ask them to correct your personal information”
You could also call this:

“Deciding whether to attach your correction statement to your personal information”

When you ask an agency to attach a statement of correction to your personal information, they need to decide what to do quickly. They must tell you if they’ve added your statement or not.

If the agency adds your statement, they’ll let you know what they did to attach it to your information.

If the agency doesn’t add your statement, they have to tell you that you can complain to the Privacy Commissioner about their decision.

The agency needs to do all of this as soon as they can after you make your request.

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Part 4 Access to and correction of personal information
Correction of personal information

64Decision on request to attach statement of correction

  1. As soon as is reasonably practicable after receiving a request under IPP 7(3)(b), an agency must—

  2. decide whether to grant the request; and
    1. notify the requestor that—
      1. the agency has attached the statement of correction to the information; or
        1. the agency has not attached the statement of correction to the information.

        2. A notice under subsection (1)(b)(i) must inform the requestor of the action the agency has taken to attach the statement of correction to the information.

        3. A notice under subsection (1)(b)(ii) must inform the requestor of the requestor’s right to make a complaint to the Commissioner in respect of the agency’s refusal to attach a statement of correction to the information.

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