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Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990
118Duty of disclosure of reporting agencies
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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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