Privacy Act 2020

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

41: Urgency

You could also call this:

"Asking for your information to be given to you quickly because it's urgent"

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If you want to get information about yourself from an organisation, you can ask them to treat your request as urgent. You can make what is called an urgent IPP 6 request, which is a special kind of request to get information about yourself quickly. When you make this request, you need to say why it should be treated as urgent.

When an organisation gets your urgent request, they have to think about why you want it done quickly and decide how quickly they can respond. They will look at your reason for wanting it urgently and use that to help them decide how fast to respond. This means they will try to respond to your urgent request as soon as they can, based on what you have told them.

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Part 4Access to and correction of personal information
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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