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Digital Economy Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 20 March 2017. It occurred during Debate on bills on Digital Economy Bill.

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

28BJ: Clause 39, page 37, line 2, at end insert—

“(8) In disclosing information under any of sections 31 to 35 , a person must have regard to the following codes of practice issued by the Information Commissioner under section 51(3) of the Data Protection Act 1998, so far as they apply to the information in question—

(a) any code which makes provision about the identification and reduction of the risks to privacy of a proposal to disclose information;

(b) any code which makes provision about the information to be provided to data subjects (within the meaning of that Act) about the use to be made of information collected from them.

(9) The duty in subsection (8) does not affect any other requirement for the person to have regard to a code of practice in disclosing the information.”

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
782 c118 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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