Privacy Act 2020

Access to and correction of personal information - Access to personal information

39: Interpretation

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When you are reading about accessing and correcting your personal information, you will see some special terms. An IPP 6 request is when you ask for something under a rule called IPP 6, which you can find out more about in subpart 3. The person who makes this request is called the requestor.

You might see the term IPP 6 request in this part of the law and in subpart 3, and it means the same thing. The requestor is the person who asks for something under IPP 6. This is how these terms are used in this part of the law.

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39Interpretation

  1. In this subpart and subpart 3, IPP 6 request means a request made under IPP 6.

  2. In this subpart, requestor, in relation to an IPP 6 request, means the person who made the request.

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