Part IIIU.K. Miscellaneous and general

86 Temporary exclusion of section 5 of Data Protection Act 1984 in relation to data transferred to new bodies.E+W

(1)Where personal data are transferred under any provision of this Act to a body corporate established under this Act, section 5(1) of the M1Data Protection Act 1984 (prohibition of unregistered holding, etc, of personal data) shall not apply in relation to the holding by that body corporate of the data so transferred or any data of the same description as the data so transferred until the end of the period of six months beginning—

(a)in the case of a body established to conduct an educational institution, the date on which the body begins to conduct the institution, and

(b)in any other case, when the body is established.

(2)Expressions used in subsection (1) above and in that Act have the same meaning in that subsection as in that Act.

Commencement Information

I1S. 86 wholly in force 6.5.1992 see s. 94(3) and S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1

Marginal Citations