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CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE
Part V - ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION
OF PERSONAL DATA
22. Data correction request
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Subject to subsection (2),
where-
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copy of personal data has been supplied by a
data user in compliance with a data access request;
and
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the individual, or a relevant person on behalf
of the individual, who is the data subject considers
that the data are inaccurate,
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then that individual or relevant person, as the case
may be, may make a request that the data user make the
necessary correction to the data.
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A data user who, in relation to personal data-
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does not hold the data; but
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controls the processing of the data in such a
way as to prohibit the data user who does hold
the data from complying (whether in whole or in
part) with section 23(1) in relation to a data
correction request which relates to the data,
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shall be deemed to be a data user to whom such a request
may be made, and the provisions of this Ordinance (including
subsection (1)) shall be construed accordingly.
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Without prejudice
to the generality of sections 23(1)(c) and 25(2), if a
data user, subsequent to the receipt of a data correction
request but before complying with the request pursuant
to section 24 or refusing to comply with the request pursuant
to section 25, discloses to a third party the personal
data to which the request relates, then the user shall
take all practicable steps to advise the third party that
the data are the subject of a data correction request
still under consideration by the user (or words to the
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