South Australian Consolidated Acts

FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 33

33—Duties of reporting agencies

        (1)         A reporting agency must, on the written application of a person in relation to whom the agency has recorded information, disclose without charge—

            (a)         all information in its files relating to that person at the time the request; and

            (b)         the name and address of every person to whom a prescribed report relating to that person has been provided within the year preceding the date of the request; and

            (c)         a copy of every such prescribed report that was in writing.

        (2)         A reporting agency may require any person seeking disclosure of information under this section to produce reasonable evidence of the person's identity.

        (3)         A reporting agency must take reasonable steps to ensure that information to which a person is entitled under this section is disclosed in a form that is readily intelligible to that person and will permit that person to make a copy of, or to take an extract from, the information so disclosed.

        (4)         A reporting agency must not require a person to give any undertaking, or to waive any right that the person may have, as a condition of disclosing information under this section.