Education Reform Act 1988

223 Temporary exclusion of section 5 of Data Protection Act 1984 in relation to data transferred to new bodies.E+W

(1)Where personal data are transferred under any provision of this Act to a body corporate established under this Act, section 5(1) of the M1Data Protection Act 1984 (prohibition of unregistered holding, etc., of personal data) shall not apply in relation to the holding by that body corporate of the data so transferred or any data of the same description as the data so transferred until the end of the period of six months beginning with the transfer date.

(2)Expressions used in subsection (1) above to which a meaning is given for the purposes of that Act have the same meaning in that subsection.

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