PART IVDIRECTORIES OF SUBSCRIBERS

Entries relating to individuals18

1

This regulation applies in relation to a directory which includes entries which relate to subscribers who are individuals, and any person who produces such a directory shall, without charge to any such subscriber, ensure that it complies with this regulation.

2

Except to the extent, if any, to which the subscriber in question has consented otherwise, such a directory shall not contain any personal data whereof the data subject is a subscriber who is an individual other than data which are necessary to identify him and the number allocated to him.

3

Without prejudice to paragraph (2), where a subscriber who is an individual has so requested the producer of such a directory then, in his case–

a

no entry relating to a number specified in the request shall be included in that directory;

b

no entry therein shall contain a reference which reveals his sex; and

c

no such entry shall contain such part of his address as is so specified.

4

Where, in connection with the production of a directory, information relating to a particular subscriber is supplied to the producer thereof by some other person–

a

where the other person has in his possession such a request by that subscriber as is mentioned in paragraph (3) (to whomsoever made) or a copy or record of such a request, he shall, without undue delay, transmit a copy of that request or a copy of that record to the producer of the directory, and

b

subject to receipt by the producer of the directory of a copy of a request or of a record thereof so transmitted, the request in question shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph (3) as if it had been made to that producer.