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Privacy Act 2020

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

60: Urgency

You could also call this:

“How to make and handle urgent requests to correct personal information”

You can ask for your request to correct your personal information to be treated as urgent. This is called an urgent correction request. When you make an urgent correction request, you need to explain why it should be treated as urgent. When an organisation gets an urgent correction request, they must think about your request and the reason you gave for it being urgent. This helps them decide how quickly they should respond to your request.

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

60Urgency

  1. A requestor may ask that a correction request be treated as urgent (an urgent correction request).

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

  3. On receiving an urgent correction 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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