s.14Rectification, blocking, erasure or destruction
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Section 14Part 2 — RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF DATA SUBJECTS AND OTHERS

Rectification, blocking, erasure or destruction

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If the Commissioner is satisfied on a complaint made under section 43 that personal data are inaccurate, the Commissioner may order the data controller to rectify, block, erase or destroy —
those data; and
any other personal data in respect of which the person is the data controller and that contain an expression of opinion that appears to the Commissioner to be based on the inaccurate data.
Subsection (1) applies whether or not the personal data accurately record information received or obtained by the data controller from the data subject or a third party, but, if the data accurately record such information, then the Commissioner may instead of making an order under subsection (1) —
make an order requiring the personal data to be supplemented by a statement of the facts relating to the matters dealt with by the data as the Commissioner may approve;
make such order as the Commissioner thinks fit to ensure the accuracy of the data, having regard to the purpose or purposes for which the data were obtained and further processed, with or without a further order requiring the data to be supplemented by a statement of the facts relating to the matters dealt with by the data as the Commissioner may approve; or
make an order requiring the data controller to ensure that the data indicate that, in the data subject’s view, the data are inaccurate.
If the Commissioner —
makes an order under subsection (1); or
is satisfied on a complaint made under section 43 that personal data that have been rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed were inaccurate,

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