The Ordinance

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CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE

Part IV - DATA USER RETURNS AND REGISTER OF DATA USERS

  1. Data user returns
  2. Register of data users
  3. Inspection of register
  4. Register shall not limit, etc. operation of this Ordinance

14. Data user returns

(1)

Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may, by notice in the Gazette, specify a class of data users to which this section shall apply.

(2)

The Commissioner shall, before specifying a class of data users in a notice under subsection (1), consult with-

(a)

such bodies representative of data users belonging to that class; and

(b)

such other interested persons,

as he thinks fit.

(3)

This section shall not apply to a data user except a data user belonging to a class of data users specified in a notice under subsection (1) which is in force.

(4)

A data user shall submit to the Commissioner a data user return-

(a)

in the specified form;

(b)

containing the prescribed information required by the return in relation to the data user;

(c)

in the case of-

  1. a data user which belongs to the class of data users concerned on the day on which the notice under subsection (1) specifying that class commences, not earlier than 3 months before, and not later than, each anniversary of that day;
  2. a data user which first belongs to the class of data users concerned on a day after the day on which the notice under subsection (1) specifying that class commences, not earlier than 3 months before, and not later than, each anniversary of that first-mentioned day; and
(d) accompanied by the prescribed fee.


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