Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
Part 5—Division 1
5-8
Section 19
Cap. 486
(3) A copy of the personal data to be supplied by a data user in
compliance with a data access request shall—
(a) be supplied by reference to the data at the time when
the request is received except that the copy may take
account of—
(i) any processing of the data—
(A) made between that time and the time when
the copy is supplied; and
(B) that would have been made irrespective of the
receipt of the request; and
(ii) subject to subsection (5), any correction to the data
made between that time and the time when the
copy is supplied;
(b) where any correction referred to paragraph (a)(ii) has
been made to the data, be accompanied by a notice
stating that the data has been corrected pursuant to that
paragraph (or words to the like effect); and (Amended
18 of 2012 s. 12)
(c) as far as practicable, be—
(i) intelligible unless the copy is a true copy of a
document which—
(A) contains the data; and
(B) is unintelligible on its face;
(ii) readily comprehensible with any codes used by the
data user adequately explained; and
(iii) in—
(A) subject to sub-subparagraph (B), the language
specified in the request or, if no language
is so specified, the language in which the
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