Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 19 Minor and consequential amendments

PART 2 Amendments of other legislation

Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/341)

253 In regulation 3(1) (interpretation), at the appropriate places insert—

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

• ““the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);”;

• ““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);”.