Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
Part 8
8-34
Section 63C
Cap. 486
(ii) destroy any record of the personal data that is kept
by the person.
(5) A person who contravenes subsection (4) commits an
offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5 and to
imprisonment for 2 years.
(6) In this section—
due diligence exercise (盡職審查), in relation to a proposed
business transaction, means the examination of the subject
matter of the transaction to enable a party to decide whether
to proceed with the transaction;
provision for gain (為得益而提供), in relation to personal data,
means provision of the data in return for money or other
property, irrespective of whether—
(a) the return is contingent on any condition; or
(b) the person who provides the data retains any control
over the use of the data.
(Added 18 of 2012 s. 35)
63C.
Emergency situations
(1) Personal data is exempt from the provisions of data protection
principle 1(3) and data protection principle 3 if the application
of those provisions to the data would be likely to prejudice
any of the following matters—
(a) identifying an individual who is reasonably suspected to
be, or is, involved in a life-threatening situation;
(b) informing the individual’s immediate family members or
relevant persons of the individual’s involvement in the
life-threatening situation;
(c) the carrying out of emergency rescue operations or
provision of emergency relief services.
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25.4.2013
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