NepalPrivacy Act, 2075, correction right
Privacy Act, 2075 (2018), Act Number 14 of 2075, s.28
In force since .
A data subject rights rule binding government bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Nepal's Privacy Act gives a person a right to apply to a public body to correct wrong or unfounded information about them, including biometric information, but this correction right runs against public bodies specifically; no equivalent access, erasure, or correction right against a private body corporate was found.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- What counts as having "already taken any advantage or facility on the basis of such information" for the proviso to section 28(1), which bars an application to correct the information?
- Which Rules prescribe the form for an application "in the prescribed form" under section 28(1)?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 28 lets a person apply to a public body to correct information about them, with the reasons and evidence, and lets the body correct it after inquiry. The application is the person's document and the body is given a discretion; the section does not require the body to keep a record of the request or of the correction, and states no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 28 is the sole rights-like provision located: a right to apply to the concerned public body to correct information the person believes is wrong or not fact-based, with the public body deciding after inquiry whether to correct it. The right does not run against a private body corporate on its face. No express right of access, erasure, portability, or objection was found anywhere in the sections read, a materially thinner rights catalog than this batch's other South Asian jurisdictions.
When LexLint raises it
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