Singapore legislation

Section 22A

of Personal Data Protection Act 2012

Section 22A

Preservation of copies of personal data

Amended by40/202040/2020

(1)

Where —

(a)

an individual, on or after 1 February 2021, makes a request under section 21(1)(a) to an organisation to provide personal data about the individual that is in the possession or under the control of the organisation; and

(b)

the organisation refuses to provide that personal data,the organisation must preserve, for not less than the prescribed period, a copy of the personal data concerned.

Amended by40/2020

(2)

The organisation must ensure that the copy of the personal data it preserves for the purposes of subsection (1) is a complete and accurate copy of the personal data concerned.

Amended by40/2020