2(1)Section 1A of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 (functions of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as competent authority) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (8)—
(a)omit “personal data protection legislation in the United Kingdom that implements”,
(b)for paragraph (a) substitute—
“(a)the GDPR; and”, and
(c)in paragraph (b), at the beginning insert “ legislation in the United Kingdom that implements ”.
(3)In subsection (9), after “section” insert “—
“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), read with Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Data Protection Act 2018;”.