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Privacy Act 2020

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

42: Assistance

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“Organisations must help you request access to or correct your personal information”

If you want to make a request to access or correct your personal information, the organisation that holds your information must help you. They have to give you reasonable assistance when you’re trying to make this request or when you’re in the process of making it. This applies to requests made under Information Privacy Principle 6, which is about accessing and correcting your personal information.

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

42Assistance

  1. An agency must give reasonable assistance to a person who—

  2. wishes to make an IPP 6 request; or
    1. is making an IPP 6 request.

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