Prescribed Matters
Whether the carrying out of the matching procedure is in the public interest...
Precribed Information
The name and address of the data user...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 3 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Finances, etc. of Commissioner: Exemption from taxation
The Commissioner shall be exempt from taxation under the Inland Revenue Ordinance...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Finances, etc. of Commissioner: Director of Audit’s examination
The Director of Audit may, in respect of any financial year, conduct an examination into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which the Commissioner...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Finances, etc. of Commissioner: Accounts, audit and annual report of Commissioner
The Commissioner shall cause proper accounts to be kept of all his financial transactions...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Finances, etc. of Commissioner: Investment of surplus funds
Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may invest money that is not immediately required to be expended...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Finances, etc. of Commissioner: Borrowing powers
Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may borrow by way of overdraft such money as he may require for meeting his obligations or performing his functions under this Ordinance....
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Finances, etc. of Commissioner: Resources of Commissioner
The resources of the Commissioner shall consist of all money...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data Protection Principles: access to personal data
A data subject shall be entitled to ascertain whether a data user holds personal data of which he is the data subject...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data Protection Principles: information to be generally available
All practicable steps shall be taken to ensure that a person can...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data Protection Principles: security of personal data
All practicable steps shall be taken to ensure that any personal data (including data in a form in which access to or processing of the data is not practicable)...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data Protection Principles: use of personal data
Personal data shall not, without the prescribed consent of the data subject, be used for a new purpose...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data Protection Principles: accuracy and duration of retention of personal data
All practicable steps shall be taken to ensure that personal data is accurate having regard to the purpose...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data Protection Principles: purpose and manner of collection of personal data
Personal data shall not be collected unless the data is collected for a lawful purpose directly related to a function or activity of the data user who is to use the data...
eBOOK ● HKDP-SCHEDULE 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Amendment of Schedules 2, 4 and 6
The Chief Executive in Council may, by notice in the Gazette, amend Schedule 2, 4 or 6...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 10 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Regulations—general
The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs may make regulations for all or any of the following matters...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 10 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Regulations—fees
The Commissioner may make regulations to prescribe the fees to be paid in respect of any matter, service or facility in respect of which a prescribed fee is payable to the Commissioner...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 10 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Service of notices
A notice (howsoever described) which is required to be served under this Ordinance, or which may be served under this Ordinance, on a person (howsoever described) shall...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 10 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Power of Commissioner to specify forms
Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may specify the form of any document required under this Ordinance to be in the specified form and the form of such other documents...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 10 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Offences and Compensation: Commissioner may grant assistance in respect of proceedings
A person who may institute proceedings to seek compensation under section 66 may make an application to the Commissioner for assistance in respect of those proceedings...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 9 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Offences and Compensation: Help for aggrieved persons in obtaining information, etc.
With a view to helping a person (the person aggrieved) to decide whether to institute proceedings under section 66 and, if the person does so...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 9 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Offences and Compensation: Compensation
Subject to subsection (4), an individual who suffers damage by reason of a contravention of a requirement under this Ordinance...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 9 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Offences and Compensation: Liability of employers and principals
Any act done or practice engaged in by a person in the course of his employment shall be treated for the purposes of this Ordinance as done or engaged in by his employer...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 9 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Offences and Compensation: Time limit for laying of information etc.
Despite section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227), a complaint or information in respect of an offence under this Ordinance may be made to or laid before a magistrate within 2 years...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 9 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Offences and Compensation: Miscellaneous offences
A data user who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes any requirement under this Ordinance commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 9 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Offences and Compensation: Offences for disclosing personal data obtained without consent from data users
A person commits an offence if the person discloses any personal data of a data subject which was obtained from a data user without the data user’s consent, with an intent...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 9 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Transfer of records to Government Records Service
Personal data contained in records that are transferred to the Government Records Service is exempt from the provisions of data protection principle 3 when the records are used by...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Emergency situations
Personal data is exempt from the provisions of data protection principle 1(3) and data protection principle 3 if the application of those provisions to the data would be likely to prejudice...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Due diligence exercise
Personal data transferred or disclosed by a data user for the purpose of a due diligence exercise to be conducted in connection with a proposed business transaction that involves...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Human embryos, etc.
Personal data which consists of information showing that an identifiable individual was, or may have been, born in consequence of a reproductive technology procedure...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Exemption from section 18(1)(a)
Where a data access request relates to personal data which is or, if the data existed, would be exempt from section 18(1)(b) by virtue of section 57 or 58, then the data is also exempt...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Statistics and research
Personal data is exempt from the provisions of data protection principle 3 where the data is to be used for preparing statistics or carrying out research...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: News
Personal data held by a data user whose business, or part of whose business, consists of a news activity...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Legal proceedings etc.
Personal data is exempt from the provisions of data protection principle 3 if the use of the data is...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Self incrimination
If, as a result of complying with a request under a provision of data protection principle 6 or section 18(1)(b) in relation to any personal data...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Legal professional privilege
Personal data is exempt from the provisions of data protection principle 6 and section 18(1)(b) if the data consists of information...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Care and guardianship of minors
Personal data in relation to a minor transferred or disclosed by the Hong Kong Police Force or Customs and Excise Department to a relevant person of the minor is exempt from the provisions...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Health
Personal data relating to the physical or mental health of the data subject is exempt from the provisions of either or both of...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Protected product and relevant records under Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance
A personal data system is exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance to the extent that it is used by a data user for the collection, holding, processing or use of personal data...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Crime, etc.
Personal data held for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Security, etc. in respect of Hong Kong
Personal data held by or on behalf of the Government for the purposes of safeguarding security, defence or international relations in respect of Hong Kong is exempt...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Personal references
Personal data held by a data user which consists of a personal reference...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Relevant process
Personal data the subject of a relevant process is exempt from the provisions of data protection principle 6 and section 18(1)(b) until the completion of that process...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Employment—transitional provisions
Personal data held by a data user immediately before the appointed day...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Employment—staff planning
Personal data which consists of information relevant to any staff planning proposal to fill any series of positions of employment which are presently, or may become, unfilled...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Domestic purposes
Personal data held by an individual and concerned only with the management of his personal, family or household affairs...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Performance of judicial functions
Personal data held by a court, a magistrate or a judicial officer in the course of performing judicial functions is exempt from the provisions of the data protection...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Exemptions: Interpretation
Where any personal data is exempt from any provision of this Ordinance by virtue of this Part, then, in respect of that data and to the extent of that exemption...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 8 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Offences relating to failure to comply with requirements of Commissioner etc.
A person commits an offence if the person without lawful excuse, obstructs, hinders or resists the Commissioner or a prescribed officer in performing the functions or exercising the powers of the Commissioner...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Offences relating to enforcement notices
A data user who contravenes an enforcement notice commits an offence and is liable on a first conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Enforcement notices
If, following the completion of an investigation, the Commissioner is of the opinion that the relevant data user is contravening or has contravened a requirement under this Ordinance...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Cases in which sections 47 and 48 shall not apply
Where the Commissioner has completed an investigation (and whether or not the investigation was initiated by a complaint)...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Reports by Commissioner
Subject to subsection (3), the Commissioner may, after completing an inspection where section 36(b) is applicable, publish a report...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Persons to be informed of result of inspection or investigation
Where the Commissioner has completed an inspection, he shall, in such manner and at such time as he thinks fit, inform the relevant data user of...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Commissioner, etc. to maintain secrecy
Subject to subsections (2), (3), (7) and (8), the Commissioner and every prescribed officer shall maintain secrecy in respect of all matters that come to their actual knowledge...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Protection of witnesses, etc.
Every person shall have the same privileges in relation to the giving of information, the answering of questions, and the production of documents and things...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Evidence
Subject to subsection (2) and section 45, the Commissioner may, for the purposes of any investigation, summon before him any person who...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Proceedings of Commissioner
Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Commissioner may, for the purposes of any investigation be furnished with any information...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Power of entry on premises for the purposes of an inspection or investigation
Subject to subsections (3) and (8), the Commissioner may, for the purposes of an inspection where the personal data system, or any part thereof, the subject of the inspection is situated in...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Commissioner to inform relevant data user of inspection or investigation
The Commissioner shall, before carrying out an inspection or, subject to subsection (2), an investigation...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Commissioner may carry out or continue investigation initiated by complaint notwithstanding withdrawal of complaint
Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that it is in the public interest so to do, he may carry out or continue an investigation initiated by a complaint...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Restrictions on investigations initiated by complaints
Notwithstanding the generality of the powers conferred on the Commissioner by this Ordinance, the Commissioner may refuse to carry out or decide to terminate an investigation initiated...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Investigations by Commissioner
Where the Commissioner receives a complaint...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Complaints
An individual, or a relevant person on behalf of an individual, may make a complaint to the Commissioner about an act or practice specified in the complaint...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Inspections, Complaints and Investigations: Inspections of personal data systems
Without prejudice to the generality of section 38, the Commissioner may carry out an inspection of any personal data system used by a data user...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 7 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Provision of Personal Data for Use in Direct Marketing: Prescribed consent for providing personal data for use in direct marketing under data protection principle 3
Despite section 2(3), where a data user requires, under data protection principle 3, the prescribed consent of a data subject for providing any personal data of the data subject...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Provision of Personal Data for Use in Direct Marketing: Data subject may require data user to cease to provide personal data for use in direct marketing
A data subject who has been provided with information by a data user under section 35J(2)(b) may, at any time, require the data user...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Provision of Personal Data for Use in Direct Marketing: Data user must not provide personal data for use in direct marketing without data subject’s consent
A data user who has complied with section 35J must not provide the data subject’s personal data to another person for use by that other person in direct marketing unless...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Provision of Personal Data for Use in Direct Marketing: Data user to take specified action before providing personal data
A data user who intends to provide a data subject’s personal data to another person for use by that other person in direct marketing must take each of the actions specified in subsection (2)...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Provision of Personal Data for Use in Direct Marketing: Application
This Division does not apply if a data user provides, otherwise than for gain, personal data of a data subject to another person for use by that other person in offering...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Use of Personal Data in Direct Marketing: Prescribed consent for using personal data in direct marketing under data protection principle 3
Despite section 2(3), where a data user requires, under data protection principle 3, the prescribed consent of a data subject...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Use of Personal Data in Direct Marketing: Data subject may require data user to cease to use personal data in direct marketing
A data subject may, at any time, require a data user to cease to use the data subject’s personal data in direct marketing...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Use of Personal Data in Direct Marketing: Data user must notify data subject when using personal data in direct marketing for first time
A data user must, when using a data subject’s personal data in direct marketing for the first time, inform the data subject that the data user must...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Use of Personal Data in Direct Marketing: Data user must not use personal data in direct marketing without data subject’s consent
A data user who has complied with section 35C must not use the data subject’s personal data in direct marketing unless...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Use of Personal Data in Direct Marketing: Circumstances under which section 35C does not apply
If, before the commencement date a data subject had been explicitly informed by a data user in an easily understandable and...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Use of Personal Data in Direct Marketing: Data user to take specified action before using personal data in direct marketing
Subject to section 35D, a data user who intends to use a data subject’s personal data in direct marketing must take each of the actions specified in subsection (2)...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Use of Personal Data in Direct Marketing: Application
This Division does not apply in relation to the offering, or advertising of the availability, of social services run...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Interpretation: Interpretation of Part 6A
In this Part, consent (同意), in relation to a use of personal data in direct marketing or a provision of personal data for use in direct marketing...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6A ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Matching Procedures and Transfers of Personal Data, etc.: Repeated collections of personal data in same circumstances
A data user who has complied with the provisions of data protection principle 1(3) in respect of the collection of any personal data from the data subject (first collection)...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Matching Procedures and Transfers of Personal Data, etc.: Prohibition against transfer of personal data to place outside Hong Kong except in specified circumstances
This section shall not apply to personal data other than personal data the collection, holding, processing or use of which...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Matching Procedures and Transfers of Personal Data, etc.: Determination of matching procedure request
The Commissioner shall determine a matching procedure request not later than 45 days after receiving the request...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Matching Procedures and Transfers of Personal Data, etc.: Matching procedure request
A data user proposing to carry out, whether in whole or in part, a matching procedure may make a request in the specified form...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Matching Procedures and Transfers of Personal Data, etc.: Matching procedure not to be carried out except with consent of data subject, etc.
A data user shall not carry out, whether in whole or in part, a matching procedure...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 6 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Service and language of certain notices
Without prejudice to the generality of section 68, where pursuant to a data access request or data correction request a data user is required to...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Imposition of fees by data user
A data user shall not impose a fee for complying or refusing to comply with a data access request or data correction request unless the imposition of the fee is expressly permitted...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Log book to be kept by data user
A data user shall keep and maintain a log book for the purposes of this Part...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Miscellaneous: Erasure of personal data no longer required
A data user must take all practicable steps to erase personal data held by the data user where the data is no longer required for the purpose...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Correction of Personal Data: Notification of refusal to comply with data correction request, etc.
A data user who pursuant to section 24 refuses to comply with section 23(1) in relation to a data correction request shall, as soon as practicable but...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Correction of Personal Data: Circumstances in which data user shall or may refuse to comply with data correction request
Subject to subsection (2), a data user shall refuse to comply with section 23(1) in relation to a data correction request if the data user is not supplied...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Correction of Personal Data: Compliance with data correction request
Subject to subsection (2) and section 24, a data user who is satisfied that personal data to which a data correction request relates is inaccurate shall...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Correction of Personal Data: Data correction request
Subject to subsections (1A) and (2), where— (Amended 18 of 2012 s. 15) a copy of personal data has been supplied by a data user in compliance with a data access request...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Access to Personal Data: Notification of refusal to comply with data access request
Subject to subsection (2), a data user who pursuant to section 20 refuses to comply with a data access request shall...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Access to Personal Data: Circumstances in which data user shall or may refuse to comply with data access request
A data user shall refuse to comply with a data access request if the data user is not supplied with such information as the data user may reasonably require...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Access to Personal Data: Compliance with data access request
Subject to subsection (2) and sections 20 and 28(5), a data user must comply with a data access request within 40 days after receiving the request by...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Access to Personal Data: Data access request
An individual, or a relevant person on behalf of an individual, may make a request...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Access to Personal Data: Interpretation of Part 5
Without limiting the definition of relevant person in section 2(1), in this Part...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 5 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data User Returns and Register of Data Users: Register shall not limit, etc. operation of this Ordinance
For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that whether or not the register contains any particulars...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 4 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data User Returns and Register of Data Users: Inspection of register
The Commissioner shall provide facilities for making the particulars contained in the register available for inspection....
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 4 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data User Returns and Register of Data Users: Register of data users
The Commissioner must keep and maintain a register of data users who have submitted data user returns, using information in those returns and in any change notices....
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 4 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data User Returns and Register of Data Users: Verification of data user returns
For the purpose of verifying the accuracy of information in a data user return or change notice, the Commissioner may...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 4 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Data User Returns and Register of Data Users: Data user returns
Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may, by notice in the Gazette, specify a class of data users to which this section shall apply...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 4 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Codes of Practice: Use of approved codes of practice in proceedings under this Ordinance
A failure on the part of any data user to observe any provision of an approved code of practice shall not of itself render the data user liable to any civil or criminal proceedings...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 3 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Codes of Practice: (1) Subject to subsections (8) and (9), for the purpose of providing practical guidance in respect of any requirements under this Ordinance imposed on data users, the Commissioner may— (a) approve and issue such codes of practice (whether prepared by him or not) as in his opinion are suitable for that purpose; and (b) approve such codes of practice issued or proposed to be issued otherwise than by him as in his opinion are suitable for that purpose.
Subject to subsections (8) and (9), for the purpose of providing practical guidance in respect of any requirements under this Ordinance imposed on data users, the Commissioner may...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 3 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Immunity
No civil liability is incurred by the person appointed to be the Commissioner under section 5(3) or a prescribed officer in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the person or...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Establishment of Personal Data (Privacy) Advisory Committee
There is hereby established a committee by the name of the Personal Data (Privacy) Advisory Committee for the purpose of advising the Commissioner...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Delegations by Commissioner
Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may delegate in writing any of his functions or powers under this Ordinance to any prescribed officer subject to such terms and conditions...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Staff of Commissioner, etc.
The Commissioner may employ such persons (including technical and professional persons)...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Functions and powers of Commissioner
The Commissioner shall monitor and supervise compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Filling of temporary vacancy
Where the person appointed to be the Commissioner dies,resings,is removed from office...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Commissioner to hold no other office
The person appointed to be the Commissioner shall not, without the specific approval of the Chief Executive— (Amended 34 of 1999 s. 3)...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Administration: Establishment, etc. of Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data
For the purposes of this Ordinance, there is hereby established an office by the name of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 2 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Preliminary: Data protection principles
A data user shall not do an act, or engage in a practice, that contravenes a data protection principle unless the act or practice, as the case may be, is required or permitted under this Ordinance...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Preliminary: Application
This Ordinance binds the Government...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Preliminary: Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires...
eBOOK ● HKDP-PART 1 ● KNOWLEDGE BANK
Preliminary: Short title and commencement
This Ordinance may be cited as the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance...
