Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
Part 9
9-10
Section 66A
(5) Proceedings brought by an individual in reliance on
subsection (1) are to be brought in the District Court but all
such remedies are obtainable in those proceedings as would
be obtainable in the Court of First Instance. (Added 18 of
2012 s. 38)
66A.
Help for aggrieved persons in obtaining information, etc.
(1) With a view to helping a person (the person aggrieved) to
decide whether to institute proceedings under section 66 and,
if the person does so, to formulate and present his or her
case in the most effective manner, the Commissioner may
prescribe—
(a) forms by which the person aggrieved may question the
respondent on the respondent’s reasons for doing any
relevant act, or on any other matter which is or may be
relevant; and
(b) forms by which the respondent may, if he or she so
wishes, reply to any questions.
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(2) If the person aggrieved questions the respondent (whether or
not in accordance with a form referred to in subsection (1))—
(a) the question and any reply by the respondent (whether
or not in accordance with such a form) are, subject to
subsections (3), (4) and (5), admissible as evidence in
the proceedings; and
(b) if it appears to the District Court that the respondent,
deliberately and without reasonable excuse, omitted to
reply within a reasonable period or that the respondent’s
reply is evasive or equivocal, the Court may draw any
inference from that fact it considers just and equitable to
draw.
(3) The Commissioner may—
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