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Privacy Act 2020

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

61: Assistance

You could also call this:

“Agencies must help you request corrections to your personal information”

If you want to make a correction request for your personal information, the agency holding that information must help you. They have to give you reasonable assistance if you’re thinking about making a correction request or if you’re in the process of making one. This means they should support you and make it easier for you to ask for changes to your information. Remember, the agency is supposed to help you, so don’t be afraid to ask for their support when you need it.

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

61Assistance

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

  2. wishes to make a correction request; or
    1. is making a correction request.

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