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Privacy Act 2020

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

42: Assistance

You could also call this:

"Agencies must help you when you ask for your personal information"

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If you want to ask for your personal information, an agency must help you. You might need help to ask for this information, which is called making an IPP 6 request. The agency must give you reasonable assistance when you are making this request.

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Part 4Access 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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