118Duty of disclosure of reporting agencies

118 Duty of disclosure of reporting agencies (1) A reporting agency shall, on the written application of a person in relation to whom the agency has recorded information, disclose to that person without charge: (a) all information in its files relating to that person at the time of the request; and (b) the name and address of every person to whom a prescribed report relating to that person has been provided within the year preceding the date of the request; and (c) a copy of every such prescribed report that was in writing. (2) A reporting agency may require a person seeking disclosure of information under this section to produce reasonable evidence of the person's identity. (3) A reporting agency shall take reasonable steps to ensure that information to which a person is entitled under this section is disclosed in a form that is readily intelligible to that person and shall permit that person to make a copy of, or take an extract from, the information so disclosed. (4) A reporting agency shall not require a person to give any undertaking, or to waive any right that the person may have, as a condition of disclosing information under this section.

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