Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill

Clause 11

New section 22A

Part V of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 22, the following section:“Preservation of copies of personal data22A.—

(1)

Where —

(a)

an individual, on or after the date of commencement of section 11 of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2020, 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.(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.”.