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Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards
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1. Overview

(1) This Act makes provision about the processing of personal data.

(2) Most processing of personal data is subject to the UK GDPR.

(3) Part 2 supplements the GDPR (see Chapter 2) and applies a broadly equivalent regime to certain types of processing to which the UK GDPR does not apply (see Chapter 3).

(4) Part 3 makes provision about the processing of personal data by competent authorities for law enforcement purposes.

(5) Part 4 makes provision about the processing of personal data by the intelligence services.

(6) Part 5 makes provision about the Information Commissioner.

(7) Part 6 makes provision about the enforcement of the data protection legislation.

(8) Part 7 makes supplementary provision, including provision about the application of this Act to the Crown and to Parliament.

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