20321ab7_nformation_Commissioner___OAIC_reedom_of_Information_Act_1982_Issue_description
[FOI Act Part] Part V — Amendment and annotation of personal records [FOI Act section] 48 [Recommended action] (If the proposal to remove Part V is not adopted) Part V should be amended to give a person the right to request the amendment of personal information in an agency's possession regardless of whether that person has already been lawfully provided with access to the document. The prerequisite should be only that the person has a lawful right of access to the document. [Issue description] 
Part V (amendment and annotation of personal records) applies only to documents to which access has already been lawfully provided. By contrast, 'lawful access' is not a requirement for exercising correction rights under the Privacy Act.
Review of freedom of information legislation| Office of the Australian Information Commissioner - OAIC
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