Section 42: Compliance with request for 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repealed (no longer in force).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 The records juris holds show this law as repealed.
42. Compliance with request for access to personal data
(1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 43 and to the payment of the
prescribed fee, a data controller shall comply with a request under section 41
not later than 28 days after the receipt of the request.
(2) Where a data controller is unable to comply with the request within
the period specified in subsection (1), he shall—
(a) before the expiry of the specified period—
(i) inform the data subject or the relevant person who has
made the request on behalf of the data subject, that he is
unable to comply with the request and shall, if required,
state the reasons therefor;
(ii) endeavour to comply with the request in such time as may
be reasonably practicable; and
(b) as soon as practicable after the expiry of the specified period,
comply with the request.
(S. 42 came into operation on 16 February 2009.)