Data Protection Act 2018

Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977)U.K.

364(1)Schedule 3 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (access to marked registers and other documents open to public inspection after an election) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In paragraph 1(1) (interpretation and general)—

(a)omit the definition of “research purposes”, and

(b)at the appropriate places insert—

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

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);.

(3)In paragraph 5(3) (restrictions on the use, supply and disclosure of documents open to public inspection), for “research purposes” substitute “ Article 89 GDPR purposes ”.