Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 20 Transitional provision etc

PART 1 General

Interpretation

1 (1) In this Schedule—

• “the 1984 Act” means the Data Protection Act 1984;

• “the 1998 Act” means the Data Protection Act 1998;

• “the 2014 Regulations” means the Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No. 36) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3141);

• “data controller” has the same meaning as in the 1998 Act (see section 1 of that Act);

• “the old data protection principles” means the principles set out in—

  (a)

  Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1998 Act, and

  (b)

  regulation 30 of the 2014 Regulations.

(2) A provision of the 1998 Act that has effect by virtue of this Schedule is not, by virtue of that, part of the data protection legislation (as defined in section 3).