Data Protection Act 2018

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1

The Parliamentary corporation is to be treated as a Crown body for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 to the extent specified in this article.

2

The Parliamentary corporation is to be treated as a government department for the purposes of the following provisions—

a

section 8(d) (lawfulness of processing under the GDPR: public interest etc),

b

section 209 (application to the Crown),

c

paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 (statutory etc and government purposes),

d

paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 (exemptions from the GDPR: functions designed to protect the public etc), and

e

paragraph 8(1)(o) of Schedule 3 (exemptions from the GDPR: health data).

3

In the provisions mentioned in paragraph (4)—

a

references to employment by or under the Crown are to be treated as including employment as a member of staff of the Parliamentary corporation, and

b

references to a person in the service of the Crown are to be treated as including a person so employed.

4

The provisions are—

a

section 24(3) (exemption for certain data relating to employment under the Crown), and

b

section 209(6) (application of certain provisions to a person in the service of the Crown).

5

In this article, references to a provision of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Data Protection Act 2018 have the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of that Act (see section 3(14) of that Act).