Amendment of personal records

A person can apply for information about personal affairs to be amended where it is incomplete, incorrect, out of date or misleading. The agency may refuse to amend the document if:

it believes the application to be incorrect
the document is not incomplete, out of date or misleading or,
procedures for amending records are contained in another Act [Freedom of Information Act s.35].

The agency must advise the applicant of a refusal to amend the document and of the right to appeal. If an agency has refused to amend a record, an applicant can require the agency to place a notation on the record [Freedom of Information Act s 37].