PART 1 General
- 1.Interpretation
- 2.Right of access to personal data under the 1998 Act
- 3.Right to prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress under the 1998 Act
- 4.Right to prevent processing for purposes of direct marketing under the 1998 Act
- 5.Automated processing under the 1998 Act
- 6.Compensation for contravention of the 1998 Act or Part 4 of the 2014 Regulations
- 7.Rectification, blocking, erasure and destruction under the 1998 Act
- 8.Jurisdiction and procedure under the 1998 Act
- 9.Exemptions under the 1998 Act
- 10.Prohibition by this Act of requirement to produce relevant records
- 11.Avoidance under this Act of certain contractual terms relating to health records
- 12.Exemptions from the GDPR: restrictions of rules in Articles 13 to 15 of the GDPR
- 13.Manual unstructured data held by FOI public authorities
- 14.Logging
- 15.Regulation 50 of the 2014 Regulations (disapplication of the 1998 Act)
- 16.Maximum fee for data subject access requests to intelligence services
- 17.National security certificates: processing of personal data under the 1998 Act
- 18.National security certificates: processing of personal data under the 2018 Act
- 19.Appointment etc
- 20.Accounts
- 21.Annual report
- 22.Fees etc received by the Commissioner
- 23.Paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to this Act applies only.
- 24.Functions in connection with the Data Protection Convention
- 25.Co-operation with the European Commission: transfers of personal data outside the EEA
- 26.Charges payable to the Commissioner by controllers
- 27.Requests for assessment
- 28.Codes of practice
- 29.Interpretation of this Part
- 30.Information notices
- 31.Special information notices
- 32.Assessment notices
- 33.Enforcement notices
- 34.Determination by Commissioner as to the special purposes
- 35.Restriction on enforcement in case of processing for the special purposes
- 36.Offences
- 37.Powers of entry
- 38.Monetary penalties
- 39.Appeals
- 40.Exemptions
- 41.Tribunal Procedure Rules
- 42.Obstruction etc
- 43.Enforcement etc under the 2014 Regulations
- 44.Information notices
- 45.Powers of entry
- 46.Tribunal Procedure Rules
- 47.Powers to disclose information to the Commissioner
- 48.Codes etc required to be consistent with the Commissioner’s data-sharing code
- 49.(1) This paragraph applies in relation to the original statement.
- 50.Consumer Credit Act 1974
- 51.Freedom of Information Act 2000
- 52.(1) This paragraph applies where a request for information was.
- 53.(1) Tribunal Procedure Rules made under paragraph 7(1)(b) of Schedule.
- 54.(1) The repeal of paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 to.
- 55.(1) The amendment of section 77 of the 2000 Act.
- 56.Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
- 57.Access to Health Records (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1250 (N.I. 4))
- 58.Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2450)
- 59.Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/431 (N.I. 9))
- 60.Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3391)
- 61.Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/520)
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