Data Protection Act 1998

34Information available to the public by or under enactment

Personal data are exempt from—

(a)the subject information provisions,

(b)the fourth data protection principle and section 14(1) to (3), and

(c)the non-disclosure provisions,

if the data consist of information which the data controller is obliged by or under any enactment to make available to the public, whether by publishing it, by making it available for inspection, or otherwise and whether gratuitously or on payment of a fee.