{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-services-regulations-1989/regulation-1O",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-services-regulations-1989/regulation-1O.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Personal Files (Social Services) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-services-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/1O",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1O",
  "heading": "Rectification and erasure of inaccurate information",
  "text": "(1) If an individual who is the subject of accessible personal information regards that information, or part of it, as inaccurate, he may by notice in writing require the local social services authority holding the information to rectify or erase the information which he regards as inaccurate.\n(2) A local social services authority shall not be obliged to take any action in response to a notice under paragraph (1) unless the notice—\n(a) supplies sufficient information for the local social services authority to locate the information regarded as inaccurate, (b) specifies in what respect the individual regards that information as inaccurate, and (c) specifies how the individual considers the local social services authority should rectify the information or what part of the information he considers the local social services authority should erase.\n(3) An individual who serves a notice under paragraph (1) shall be entitled to submit with the notice such written evidence of the inaccuracy of the information referred to in the notice as he considers appropriate.\n(4) If, following a notice under paragraph (1), a local social services authority are satisfied that the information specified in the notice is inaccurate, that local social services authority shall rectify or erase—\n(a) the inaccurate information, and (b) any information held by them containing an expression of opinion which appears to the local social services authority to be based on the inaccurate information.\n(5) If, following a notice under paragraph (1), the local social services authority are not satisfied that the information specified in the notice is inaccurate, the local social services authority shall place with the information regarded as inaccurate by the individual who served the notice, a written note that that individual regards that information as inaccurate.\n(6) If a local social services authority—\n(a) rectify any information under paragraph (4), or\n(b) place a written note with any information under paragraph (5), the local social services authority shall give the individual who is the subject of the information access to the rectified information or the written note, as the case may be, without the payment of any fee.\n(7) A local social services authority shall have complied with their obligation under paragraph (6) if they supply the individual with a copy of the rectified information or the note as the case may be, but if the local social services authority give the individual access to that rectified information or the written note by a means other than supplying him with a copy of it, they shall in addition be obliged to supply the individual with a copy of such of that rectified information or the written note as he may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/206/regulation/1O",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:59.627506+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}