Data Protection Act 2018

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4(1)The [F1relevant UK GDPR provisions] do not apply to personal data processed [F2by the Secretary of State] for any of the following purposes—U.K.

(a)the maintenance of effective immigration control, or

(b)the investigation or detection of activities that would undermine the maintenance of effective immigration control,

to the extent that the application of those provisions would be likely to prejudice any of the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b).

F3[F4(1A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5(1B). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1C)Paragraphs 4A and 4B make provision about F6... safeguards in connection with the exemption in [F7sub-paragraph (1)].]

(2)[F8In sub-paragraph (1) and paragraph 4A, the “relevant UK GDPR provisions”] are the following provisions of the [F9UK GDPR] (the rights and obligations in which may be restricted by virtue of Article 23(1) of the [F9UK GDPR])—

(a)Article 13(1) to (3) (personal data collected from data subject: information to be provided);

(b)Article 14(1) to (4) (personal data collected other than from data subject: information to be provided);

(c)Article 15(1) to (3) (confirmation of processing, access to data and safeguards for third country transfers);

(d)Article 17(1) and (2) (right to erasure);

(e)Article 18(1) (restriction of processing);

(f)Article 21(1) (objections to processing);

(g)Article 5 (general principles) so far as its provisions correspond to the rights and obligations provided for in the provisions mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (f).

(That is, the listed GDPR provisions other than Article 16 (right to rectification), Article 19 (notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing) and Article 20(1) and (2) (right to data portability) and, subject to sub-paragraph (2)(g) of this paragraph, the provisions of Article 5 listed in paragraph 1(b).)

F10(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F11(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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