SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 19Minor and consequential amendments

PART 2Amendments of other legislation

Scottish Parliament (Elections etc) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/425)

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(1)

Schedule 8 (access to marked registers and other documents open to public inspection after an election) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 1(2) (interpretation), omit paragraphs (c) and (d) (but not the final “and”).

(3)

In paragraph 5 (restriction on use of documents or of information contained in them)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (3), for paragraph (a) (but not the final “or”) substitute—

“(a)

purposes mentioned in Article 89(1) of the GDPR (archiving in the public interest, scientific or historical research and statistics);”, and

(b)

after sub-paragraph (4) insert—

“(5)

In this paragraph, “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).”