6. Right of rectification or erasure.
From 25 May 2018, this Act ceased to apply to the processing of personal data (within the meaning of this Act) other than the processing of such data for the purposes of safeguarding the security of the State, the defence of the State or the international relations of the State, or the processing of such data under the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014 or the Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Act 2018 to the extent that this Act is applied in those Acts but is still applicable to complaints made under s. 10 and contraventions of this Act that occurred before 25 May 2018, see s. 8 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7).
(1) An individual shall, if he so requests in writing a data controller who keeps personal data relating to him, be entitled to have rectified or, where appropriate, blocked or erased any such data in relation to which there has been a contravention by the data controller of section 2(1) of this Act; and the data controller shall comply with the request as soon as may be and in any event not more than 40 days after it has been given or sent to him:
Provided that the data controller shall, as respects data that are inaccurate or not kept up to date, be deemed -
(a) to have complied with the request if he supplements the data with a statement (to the terms of which the individual has assented) relating to the matters dealt with by the data, and