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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

28GG: Clause 73, page 76, line 18, at end insert—

“(11) In exercising any of its functions under section 45B, 45C or 45D to require the disclosure of information, the Board must have regard to any code of practice issued by the Information Commissioner under section 51(3) of the Data Protection Act 1998 which makes provision about the identification and reduction of the risks to privacy of a proposal to disclose information, so far as the code applies to the information in question.

(12) The duty in subsection (11) to have regard to a code of practice does not affect any other requirement for the Board to have regard to a code of practice under the Data Protection Act 1998 in exercising the function.”

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
782 cc130-1 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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