Section 41: Access to personal data
repealed (no longer in force). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today. The records juris holds show this law as repealed.
41. Access to personal data
(1) Subject to section 42, a data controller shall, on the written request
of a data subject or a relevant person—
(a) inform the data subject or the relevant person—
(i) whether the data kept by him include personal data relating
to the data subject;
(ii) of the purposes for which the data are being or are to be
processed;
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(iii) of the recipients or classes of recipients to whom they are
or may be disclosed; and
(b) supply the data subject or the relevant person with a copy of
any data referred to in paragraph (a) on payment of the
prescribed fee.
(2) A request under subsection (1) (a) and (b) shall be treated as a single
request.
(3) Where any data referred to in subsection (1) is expressed in terms
that are not intelligible without explanation, the data controller shall supply
the information with an explanation of those terms.
(4) A fee paid by any person to a data controller under this section shall be
returned to him where a request under subsection (1) is not complied with.
(5) The information to be supplied pursuant to a request under this
section shall be supplied by reference to any personal data at the time when
the request is received, except that it may take account of any amendment
or deletion made between that time and the time when the information is
supplied, being an amendment or deletion that would have been made
regardless of the receipt of the request.
(S. 41 came into operation on 16 February 2009.)