Data Protection Act 2018

Scottish Parliament (Elections etc) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/425)

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396(1)Schedule 3 (absent voting) is amended as follows.

(2)In paragraph 16 (absent voting lists: supply of copies etc)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (4), for paragraph (a) (but not the final “or”) substitute—

(a)purposes mentioned in Article 89(1) of the GDPR (archiving in the public interest, scientific or historical research and statistics);, and

(b)after sub-paragraph (10) insert—

(11)In this paragraph, “the GDPR” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation).

(3)In paragraph 20 (restriction on use of absent voting lists)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (3), for paragraph (a) (but not the final “or”) substitute—

(a)purposes mentioned in Article 89(1) of the GDPR (archiving in the public interest, scientific or historical research and statistics);, and

(b)after that sub-paragraph insert—

(4)In this paragraph, “the GDPR” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation).