Personal Data Protection
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(b) any opinion made by the Commissioner under
section 25, including particulars of withdrawal of previous
opinions.
Non-compliance with code of practice
29. A data user who fails to comply with any provision of the
code of practice that is applicable to the data user commits an
offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding
one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one year or to both.
Division 4
Rights of data subject
Right of access to personal data
30. (1) An individual is entitled to be informed by a data user
whether personal data of which that individual is the data subject
is being processed by or on behalf of the data user.
(2) A requestor may, upon payment of a prescribed fee, make
a data access request in writing to the data user—
(a) for information of the data subject’s personal data that is
being processed by or on behalf of the data user; and
(b) to have communicated to him a copy of the personal data
in an intelligible form.
(3) A data access request for any information under
subsection (2) shall be treated as a single request, and a data
access request for information under paragraph (2)(a) shall, in the
absence of any indication to the contrary, be treated as extending
also to such request under paragraph (2)(b).
(4) In the case of a data user having separate entries in respect
of personal data held for different purposes, a separate data access
request shall be made for each separate entry.
(5) Where a data user does not hold the personal data, but
controls the processing of the personal data in such a way as
to prohibit the data user who holds the personal data from