# The Access to Personal Files (Housing) (Scotland) Regulations 1992, Regulation 12: Rectification and erasure


(1) If a tenant who is or is treated as the subject of accessible personal information, regards that information or any part of it as inaccurate in that it—
(a) is factually incorrect or misleading; or
(b) consists of an expression of opinion about the tenant or a member of his family which is based on inaccurate information or which implies the existence of facts which are incorrect or misleading,
he may require in writing the housing authority to rectify or erase the inaccurate information.
(2) The tenant shall—
(a) supply sufficient facts to enable the housing authority to locate the information regarded as inaccurate;
(b) specify in what respect the tenant regards the information as inaccurate and how the information should be rectified or what part of the information should be erased; and
(c) provide written evidence, if any, of the inaccuracy of the information.
(3) Where the housing authority are satisfied that the accessible personal information is inaccurate they shall—
(a) rectify or erase the inaccurate information and where practicable all copies of it; and
(b) supply the tenant without charge with a copy of the information as amended by the rectification or erasure.
(4) Where the housing authority are not satisfied that the accessible personal information is inaccurate they shall—
(a) place with that information a written note that the tenant regards it as inaccurate;
(b) supply the tenant without charge with a copy of the written note and the information to which it relates, and a statement of the reasons for disagreeing that the accessible personal information is inaccurate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1852/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-12
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