Part VIIAmendments of Data Protection Act 1998

Amendments relating to personal information held by public authorities

• Section 68Extension of meaning of “data”.

  (1) Section 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (basic interpretative provisions) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3). (2) In subsection (1)— (a) in the…

• Section 69Right of access to unstructured personal data held by public authorities.

  (1) In section 7(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998 (right of access to personal data), for “sections 8 and 9” there is substituted “ sections 8, 9…

• Section 70Exemptions applicable to certain manual data held by public authorities.

  (1) After section 33 of the Data Protection Act 1998 there is inserted— “ 33A Manual data held by public authorities. (1) Personal data falling within paragraph (e)…

• Section 71Particulars registrable under Part III of Data Protection Act 1998.

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• Section 72Availability under Act disregarded for purpose of exemption.

  In section 34 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (information available to the public by or under enactment), after the word “enactment” there is inserted “ other than…

Other amendments

• Section 73Further amendments of Data Protection Act 1998.

  Schedule 6 (which contains further amendments of the Data Protection Act 1998 ) has effect.