PART 2General processing
C1CHAPTER 3F1Exemptions for manual unstructured processing and for national security and defence purposes
Pt. 2 Ch. 3 applied (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EU) No. 625/2017, Art. 143 (as substituted by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 27(3) (with reg. 46))
Exemptions etc
25C1Manual unstructured data used in longstanding historical research
1
The provisions of F2the UK GDPR listed in subsection (2) do not apply to personal data to which F3the UK GDPR applies by virtue of F4Article 2(1A) (manual unstructured personal data held by FOI public authorities) at any time when—
a
the personal data—
i
is subject to processing which was already underway immediately before 24 October 1998, and
ii
is processed only for the purposes of historical research, and
b
the processing is not carried out—
i
for the purposes of measures or decisions with respect to a particular data subject, or
ii
in a way that causes, or is likely to cause, substantial damage or substantial distress to a data subject.
2
Those provisions are—
a
in Chapter IIF5...(principles), Article 5(1)(d) (the accuracy principle), and
b
in Chapter IIIF6... (rights of the data subject)—
i
Article 16 (right to rectification), and
ii
Article 17(1) and (2) (right to erasure).
3
The exemptions in this section apply in addition to the exemptions in section 24.
Pt. 2 Ch. 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 27 (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)