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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 48

Persons may make application for amendment of records

Where a person (the claimant ) who is an Australian citizen, or whose continued presence in Australia is not subject to any limitation as to time imposed by law, claims that a document of an agency or an official document of a Minister to which access has been provided to the claimant under this Act contains personal information about the person—

        (a)     that is incomplete, incorrect, out-of-date or misleading; and

        (b)     that has been used, is being used or is available for use by the agency or Minister for an administrative purpose;

the person may request the agency or Minister to amend the record of that information kept by the agency or Minister.



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