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Laws of Malaysia
ACT 709
“Advisory Committee” means the Personal Data Protection
Advisory Committee established under section 70;
“vital interests” means matters relating to life, death or security
of a data subject;
“Fund” means the Personal Data Protection Fund established
under section 61;
“use”, in relation to personal data, does not include the act of
collecting or disclosing such personal data;
“collect”, in relation to personal data, means an act by which
such personal data enters into or comes under the control of a
data user;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility
for the protection of personal data;
“disclose”, in relation to personal data, means an act by which
such personal data is made available by a data user;
“relevant person”, in relation to a data subject, howsoever
described, means—
(a) in the case of a data subject who is below the age of
eighteen years, the parent, guardian or person who has
parental responsibility for the data subject;
(b) in the case of a data subject who is incapable of managing
his own affairs, a person who is appointed by a court to
manage those affairs, or a person authorized in writing
by the data subject to act on behalf of the data subject;
or
(c) in any other case, a person authorized in writing by
the data subject to make a data access request, data
correction request, or both such requests, on behalf of
the data subject;
“authorized officer” means any officer authorized in writing
by the Commissioner under section 110;
“correction”, in relation to personal data, includes amendment,
variation, modification or deletion;