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Version date: 7 July 2021 - onwards
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19. Content of data-sharing agreement

(1) A data-sharing agreement shall -

(a) specify the names of the parties to the agreement in a schedule to the agreement,

(b) specify the information to be disclosed,

(c) specify the purpose of the data-sharing,

(d) specify the function of the public body concerned to which the purpose referred to in paragraph (c) relates,

(e) specify the legal basis for the data-sharing and for any further processing, by the parties to the agreement, of the information to be disclosed under the agreement,

(f) specify whether the impetus for the disclosure of information under the agreement will come from a data subject or a public body,

(g) specify whether, where information is disclosed under the agreement, the disclosure will be of information in relation to individual data subjects or classes of data subjects,

(h) specify whether the disclosure of information under the agreement will be on a once-off or ongoing basis,