II. The competent superior authority will resolve the complaint within a period of five (5) business days from its presentation. If the complaint is considered founded, within the maximum period of fifteen (15) business days, the information requested will be provided. ARTICLE 17 (RESPONSIBILITY). I. The public servants in charge of the compliance and execution of this Supreme Decree that incur in undue refusal, lack of response or illegal restriction in the attention of the requests for information, regardless of the administrative and civil responsibility that corresponds to them, will be liable criminal offense for breach of duties. II. The higher administrative authority, known the fact, will file a complaint with the Public Ministry for the corresponding criminal action. The petitioner affected in his right may file a complaint with the same entity. ARTICLE 18 (EXEMPTION OF SANCTIONS). I. Compliance with the provisions of this Supreme Decree will not give rise to any type of sanctions against the persons who provide the requested information. II. No natural or legal person, public or private, entity or means of communication that discloses the information obtained, may be subject to reprisals, administrative or judicial actions for the disclosure of information, including that indicated in Article 7 of this Supreme Decree and the Article 8 of this same rule when it is framed in the procedures and deadlines established for this purpose. ARTICLE 19 (PETITION OF HABEAS DATA). I. Any person, in the administrative process, may request from the authority in charge of the files or registries the updating, complementation, elimination or rectification of their registered data by any physical, electronic, magnetic or computer means, relating to their fundamental rights to the identity, privacy, image and privacy. In the same way, it may request the competent superior authority to access the information in case of unjustified refusal by the authority in charge of registration or public archiving. II. The request for Habeas Data will be resolved within a maximum period of five (5) business days. In case of unjustified refusal of access to information, the competent hierarchical authority will additionally have a period of fifteen (15) business days to provide the information requested. III. The petition of Habeas Data does not replace or substitute the Constitutional Appeal established in Article 23 of the Political Constitution of the State. The interested party may go, alternatively, to the administrative channel without its exercise entails waiver or loss of judicial means. Access to judicial channels will not be conditioned on the prior use or exhaustion of this administrative procedure. ARTICLE 20 (MEASURES OF IMPLEMENTATION).