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Version date: 25 May 2018 - onwards
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55A. Power of Commissioner to impose monetary penalty

Repealed from 25 May 2018

(1)The Commissioner may serve a data controller with a monetary penalty notice if the Commissioner is satisfied that -

(a) there has been a serious contravention of section 4(4) by the data controller,

(b) the contravention was of a kind likely to cause substantial damage or substantial distress, and

(c) subsection (2) or (3) applies.

(2) This subsection applies if the contravention was deliberate.

(3) This subsection applies if the data controller -

(a) knew or ought to have known -

(i) that there was a risk that the contravention would occur, and

(ii) that such a contravention would be of a kind likely to cause substantial damage or substantial distress, but

(b) failed to take reasonable steps to prevent the contravention.

(3A) The Commissioner may not be satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1) by virtue of any matter which comes to the Commissioner's attention as a result of anything done in pursuance of -

(a) an assessment notice;

(b) an assessment under section 51(7).

(4) A

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