Part 3

Other measures to prevent or disrupt serious and other crime
Chapter 1

Prevention of fraud

Sharing information with anti-fraud organisations

Data protection rules
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In Schedule 3 to the Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) (conditions for processing sensitive personal data), after paragraph 7, insert—
7A
1
The processing—
a
is either—
i
the disclosure of sensitive personal data by a person as a member of an anti-fraud organisation or otherwise in accordance with any arrangements made by such an organisation; or
ii
any other processing by that person or another person of sensitive personal data so disclosed; and
b
is necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud.
2
In this paragraph “an anti-fraud organisation” means any unincorporated association, body corporate or other person which enables or facilitates any sharing of information to prevent fraud or a particular kind of fraud or which has any of these functions as its purpose or one of its purposes.