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Privacy Act 2020

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

41: Urgency

You could also call this:

“How to request urgent access to your personal information”

You can ask for your request to access your personal information to be treated as urgent. This is called an urgent IPP 6 request. When you make an urgent request, you need to explain why it’s urgent. The agency that receives your request will think about your reason for urgency when they decide how quickly to respond to you. They will use this information to figure out how important your request is compared to other work they need to do.

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Access to personal information

41Urgency

  1. A requestor may ask that an IPP 6 request be treated as urgent (an urgent IPP 6 request).

  2. A requestor making an urgent IPP 6 request must state the reason why the request should be treated as urgent.

  3. On receiving an urgent IPP 6 request, an agency must consider the request and the reason stated for its urgency when determining the priority to be given to responding to it.

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