Access to and correction of personal information - Correction of personal information
60: Urgency
You could also call this:
"Asking to fix personal information quickly because it's urgent"
If you want to correct some personal information, you can ask for it to be done urgently.
You make an urgent correction request when you think it needs to be fixed quickly.
You must say why you think it is urgent.
When an agency gets your urgent correction request, they look at it and the reason you gave for it being urgent.
They use this information to decide how quickly they need to respond to your request.
They have to consider your reason for wanting it done urgently when they decide what to do.
You can compare this to what the law said in the past, for example in s 37 of a previous law.
This law is about how agencies must handle your personal information.
You have the right to ask for your information to be corrected, and to ask for it to be done urgently if you need to.
"Agencies must help you fix mistakes in your personal information"
Part 4Access to and correction of personal information Correction of personal information
60Urgency
A requestor may ask that a correction request be treated as urgent (an urgent correction request).
A requestor making an urgent correction request must state the reason why the request should be treated as urgent.
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.
