Is Access Obligation (s 21) legally binding?

Q: Is Access Obligation (s 21) legally binding?

Access Obligation (s 21) is binding in Singapore. Binding law. It applies to everyone in scope, whether or not anyone points at it. On request, organisations must as soon as reasonably possible provide an individual with their personal data in the organisation's possession or control and information about how it has been or may have been used or disclosed within a year before the request, subject to exceptions.

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Access Obligation (s 21)

Is this legally binding?

Binding. Binding law. It applies to everyone in scope, whether or not anyone points at it.

On request, organisations must as soon as reasonably possible provide an individual with their personal data in the organisation's possession or control and information about how it has been or may have been used or disclosed within a year before the request, subject to exceptions.

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What this connects to

2 relations. Official relations are the ones the source documents state; anything marked GAGE analysis is our reading, not an agency's.

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SectionPart 5, Access to and Correction of Personal DataBinding
Structural decomposition of the source instrument

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