(1) Articles 14 (Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject) and 15 (Right of access by the data subject) of the Data Protection Regulation are restricted, to the extent necessary and proportionate to safeguard the effective performance by the Director of his or her functions referred to in paragraph (b) and (e) of section 949(1), where the performance of those functions give rise to the processing of personal data to which the Data Protection Regulation applies.
(2) In this section, "Data Protection Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 [OJ No. L 119, 4.5.2016, p.1] on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).