# The Access to Personal Files (Housing) (Scotland) Regulations 1992, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide for access to personal information held by housing authorities ie any local authority, development corporation or Scottish Homes, for any purpose in connection with their tenancies. Access can be obtained by a tenant and for that purpose a tenant means a former tenant or someone who applies to become a tenant.
If a tenant applies in writing, pays any required fee (up to a maximum of £10) and provides sufficient information about his identity and the information to which he wants access the authority must within 6 weeks in most cases and 8 weeks where third parties are involved tell him whether it holds accessible information and give him access to it (regulations 3 and 5). An authority can give access by supplying a copy of the information.
Certain kinds of information are exempt from access (regulations 7 to 11).
Provision is made for the rectification or erasure of inaccurate information (regulation 12).
A tenant can require a decision by a housing authority about access, rectification or erasure to be reviewed (regulation 13).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1852/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-scotland-regulations-1992/note
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