Regulation 10 Rectification and erasure of inaccurate information

(1)

This regulation applies where an appropriate person requests in writing the education authority holding information to which the education authority would be required to give him access under regulation 4(1) to rectify or erase any of that information which he regards as inaccurate.

(2)

An education authority shall not be required to take any action in response to a request to rectify or erase information unless the person making the request–

(a)

supplies sufficient information for the authority to locate the information regarded as inaccurate;

(b)

specifies in what respect he regards that information as inaccurate; and

(c)

specifies how he considers the authority should rectify the information or what part of the information he considers the authority should erase.

(3)

If the education authority are satisfied that the information to which the request relates is inaccurate, the authority shall rectify or erase -

(a)

the inaccurate information; and

(b)

any information held by them containing an expression of opinion which appears to the authority to be based on the inaccurate information.

(4)

If the education authority are not satisfied that the information to which the request relates is inaccurate, the authority shall place with the information a written note stating that the person who made the request regards that information as inaccurate and indicating in what respects he regards it as inaccurate.

(5)

If an education authority–

(a)

rectify any information under paragraph (3); or

(b)

place a written note with any information under paragraph (4),

the authority shall give the person who requested rectification a copy of the rectified information or of the written note, as the case may be, without the payment of any charge.