The Ordinance

The Ordinance (Full Text)

CHAPTER 486
PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE

Part X- MISCELLANEOUS

  1. Power of Commissioner to specify forms
  2. Service of notices
  3. Regulations fees
  4. Regulations general
  5. Amendment of Schedules 2, 4 and 6

67. Power of Commissioner to specify forms

(1)

Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may specify the form of any document required under this Ordinance to be in the specified form and the form of such other documents required for the purposes of this Ordinance as he thinks fit.

(2)

The Commissioner's power under subsection (1) shall be subject to any express requirement under this Ordinance for a form, whether specified or otherwise, to comply with that requirement, but that requirement shall not restrict the exercise of that power in respect of that form to the extent that, in the opinion of the Commissioner, his exercise of that power in respect of that form does not contravene that requirement.

(3)

The Commissioner's power under subsection (1) may be exercised in such a way as to -

(a)

include in the specified form of any document referred to in that subsection a statutory declaration

  1. to be made by the person completing the form; and
  2. as to whether the particulars contained in the form are true and correct to the best of that person's knowledge and belief;
(b)

specify 2 or more forms of any document referred to in that subsection, whether as alternatives, or to provide for particular circumstances or particular cases, as the Commissioner thinks fit.

(4)

A form specified under this section shall be -

(a)

completed in accordance with such directions and instructions as are specified in the form;

(b)

accompanied by such documents as are specified in the form; and

(c)

if the completed form is required to be provided to -

  1. the Commissioner;
  2. another person on behalf of the Commissioner; or
  3. any other person,

So provided in the manual, if any, specified in the form.

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