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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 fix mistakes in your personal information"

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If you want to correct your personal information, an agency must help you. You might need help to ask for a correction or while you are asking for one. The agency must give you reasonable assistance in these situations.

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Part 4Access 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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