This order brings the registration provisions of the Data Protection Act 1988 into operation on 9 January 1989. It brings the remainder of the Act, with the exception of sections 6 (2) (b) and 10 (7) (b), into operation on 19 April 1989. The excepted provisions require individuals or firms who have to correct or erase inaccurate personal data pursuant to the Act to notify the correction or erasure to anyone to whom the data were disclosed within the preceding twelve months.