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Version status: Partially repealed | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 16 July 1998

Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
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Introductory Text
Part I Preliminary (ss. 1-6)
Repealed
 1. Basic interpretative provisions
Repealed
 2. Sensitive personal data
Repealed
 3. The special purposes
Repealed
 4. The data protection principles
Repealed
 5. Application of Act
Repealed
 6. The Commissioner
Part II Rights of data subjects and others (ss. 7-15)
Repealed
 7. Right of access to personal data
Repealed
 8. Provisions supplementary to section 7
Repealed
 9. Application of section 7 where data controller is credit reference agency
Repealed
 9A. Unstructured personal data held by public authorities
Repealed
 10. Right to prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress
Repealed
 11. Right to prevent processing for purposes of direct marketing
Repealed
 12. Rights in relation to automated decision-taking
Repealed
 13. Compensation for failure to comply with certain requirements
Repealed
 14. Rectification, blocking, erasure and destruction
Repealed
 15. Jurisdiction and procedure
Part III Notification by data controllers (ss. 16-26)
Repealed
 16. Preliminary
Repealed
 17. Prohibition on processing without registration
Repealed
 18. Notification by data controllers
Repealed
 19. Register of notifications
Repealed
 20. Duty to notify changes
Repealed
 21. Offences
Repealed
 22. Preliminary assessment by Commissioner
Repealed
 23. Power to make provision for appointment of data protection supervisors
Repealed
 24. Duty of certain data controllers to make certain information available
Repealed
 25. Functions of Commissioner in relation to making of notification regulations
Repealed
 26. Fees regulations
Part IV Exemptions (ss. 27-39)
Repealed
 27. Preliminary
Repealed
 28. National security
Repealed
 29. Crime and taxation
Repealed
 30. Health, education and social work
Repealed
 31. Regulatory activity
Repealed
 32. Journalism, literature and art
Repealed
 33. Research, history and statistics
Repealed
 33A. Manual data held by public authorities
Repealed
 34. Information available to the public by or under enactment
Repealed
 35. Disclosures required by law or made in connection with legal proceedings etc
Repealed
 35A. Parliamentary privilege
Repealed
 36. Domestic purposes
Repealed
 37. Miscellaneous exemptions
Repealed
 38. Powers to make further exemptions by order
Repealed
 39. Transitional relief
Part V Enforcement (ss. 40-50)
Repealed
 40. Enforcement notices
Repealed
 41. Cancellation of enforcement notice
Repealed
 41A. Assessment notices
Repealed
 41B. Assessment notices: limitations
Repealed
 41C. Code of practice about assessment notices
Repealed
 42. Request for assessment
Repealed
 43. Information notices
Repealed
 44. Special information notices
Repealed
 45. Determination by Commissioner as to the special purposes
Repealed
 46. Restriction on enforcement in case of processing for the special purposes
Repealed
 47. Failure to comply with notice
Repealed
 48. Rights of appeal
Repealed
 49. Determination of appeals
Repealed
 50. Powers of entry and inspection
Part VI Miscellaneous and General (ss. 51-75)
Functions of Commissioner (ss. 51-54A)
Repealed
 51. General duties of Commissioner
Repealed
 52. Reports and codes of practice to be laid before Parliament
Repealed
 52A. Data-sharing code
Repealed
 52B. Data-sharing and direct marketing codes: procedure
Repealed
 52AA. Direct marketing code
Repealed
 52C. Alteration or replacement of data-sharing and direct marketing codes
Repealed
 52D. Publication of data-sharing and direct marketing codes
Repealed
 52E. Effect of data-sharing and direct marketing codes
Repealed
 53. Assistance by Commissioner in cases involving processing for the special purposes
Repealed
 54. International co-operation
Repealed
 54A. Inspection of overseas information systems
Unlawful obtaining etc. of personal data (s. 55)
Repealed
 55. Unlawful obtaining etc. of personal data
Monetary penalties (ss. 55A-55E)
Repealed
 55A. Power of Commissioner to impose monetary penalty
Repealed
 55B. Monetary penalty notices: procedural rights
Repealed
 55C. Guidance about monetary penalty notices
Repealed
 55D. Monetary penalty notices: enforcement
Repealed
 55E. Notices under sections 55A and 55B: supplemental
Records obtained under data subject's right of access (ss. 56-57)
Repealed
 56. Prohibition of requirement as to production of certain records
Repealed
 57. Avoidance of certain contractual terms relating to health records
Information provided to Commissioner or Tribunal (ss. 58-59)
Repealed
 58. Disclosure of information
Repealed
 59. Confidentiality of information
General provisions relating to offences (ss. 60-61)
Repealed
 60. Prosecutions and penalties
Repealed
 61. Liability of directors etc
Amendments of Consumer Credit Act 1974 (s. 62)
In force
 62. Amendments of Consumer Credit Act 1974
General (ss. 63-75)
Repealed
 63. Application to Crown
Repealed
 63A. Application to Parliament
Repealed
 64. Transmission of notices etc. by electronic or other means
Repealed
 65. Service of notices by Commissioner
Repealed
 66. Exercise of rights in Scotland by children
Repealed
 67. Orders, regulations and rules
Repealed
 68. Meaning of "accessible record"
Repealed
 69. Meaning of "health professional"
Repealed
 70. Supplementary definitions
Repealed
 71. Index of defined expressions
Repealed
 72. Modifications of Act
Repealed
 73. Transitional provisions and savings
Repealed
 74. Minor and consequential amendments and repeals and revocations
Repealed
 75. Short title, commencement and extent
Schedule 1 The data protection principles
Repealed
 Schedule 1, Part I The principles
Repealed
 Schedule 1, Part II Interpretation of the principles in Part I
Repealed
 Schedule 2 Conditions relevant for purposes of the first principle: processing of any personal data
Repealed
 Schedule 3 Conditions relevant for purposes of the first principle: processing of sensitive personal data
Repealed
 Schedule 4 Cases where the eighth principle does not apply
Schedule 5 The Information Commissioner
Repealed
 Schedule 5, Part I The Commissioner (paras. 1-11)
Revoked
 Schedule 5, Part II The Tribunal (paras. 12-15)
Revoked
 Schedule 5, Part III Transitional provisions (paras. 16-17)
Repealed
 Schedule 6 Appeal proceedings
Repealed
 Schedule 7 Miscellaneous exemptions
Schedule 8 Transitional relief
Repealed
 Schedule 8, Part I Interpretation of Schedule (para. 1)
Repealed
 Schedule 8, Part II Exemptions available before 24th October 2001 (paras. 2-13)
Repealed
 Schedule 8, Part III Exemptions available after 23rd October 2001 but before 24th October 2007 (paras. 14-14A)
Repealed
 Schedule 8, Part IV Exemptions after 23rd October 2001 for historical research (paras. 15-18)
Repealed
 Schedule 8, Part V Exemption from section 22 (para. 19)
Repealed
 Schedule 9 Powers of entry and inspection
Repealed
 Schedule 10 Further provisions relating to assistance under section 53
Repealed
 Schedule 11 Educational records
Repealed
 Schedule 12 Accessible public records
Repealed
 Schedule 13 Modifications of Act having effect before 24th October 2007
Repealed
 Schedule 14 Transitional provisions and savings
In force
 Schedule 15 Minor and consequential amendments
Schedule 16 Repeals and revocations
Repealed
 Schedule 16, Part I Repeals
Repealed
 Schedule 16, Part II Revocations
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