Section 16: Upon approval of the Commission, a registered file may be
completed or even automatically corrected/rectified when the entity that hold
costody of it notices the inaccuracy or the incompleteness of a registered
information contained in a file.
If any information is passed on to a third party, its rectification or its
deleting/cancelling should be notified to such third party, except if exemption
is awarded by the Commission.
Section 17: As regard to the processings related to the Homeland Security, the
defence and the Public Safety, the demand is sent to the Commission, which
delegate on of its members, that belongs or once belonged to the Supreme
Court or to the Chamber of Accounts, to carry out all the investigations possible
and to make the needed modifications. This delegated member can be assisted
by another member of the Commission.
The applicant is notified that verifications have been made.
Section 18: When the exercice of the accessibility rigth applies to forensic/
medical related information, these ones may only be disclosed to the subject
individual by a medical officer/Doctor/Phisician that he elects for this purpose.
CHAPTER IV
COMMISSION IN CHARGED OF THE PROTECTION OF PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND PROCESSINGS VERIFICATION/CONTROL
Section 19: It is instituted, in the Republic of Benin, an entity that protects the
personally identifiable information and the verification/control of their
processing, which is entitled “ National Commission of information pravacies
”(NCIP) hereinafter named Commission.
The Commission sees to the application of the provisions of the present
law.