7.—(1) The Parliamentary corporation is to be treated as a Crown body for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 to the extent specified in this article.
(2) The Parliamentary corporation is to be treated as a government department for the purposes of the following provisions—
(a)section 8(d) (lawfulness of processing under the GDPR: public interest etc),
(b)section 209 (application to the Crown),
(c)paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 (statutory etc and government purposes),
(d)paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 (exemptions from the GDPR: functions designed to protect the public etc), and
(e)paragraph 8(1)(o) of Schedule 3 (exemptions from the GDPR: health data).
(3) In the provisions mentioned in paragraph (4)—
(a)references to employment by or under the Crown are to be treated as including employment as a member of staff of the Parliamentary corporation, and
(b)references to a person in the service of the Crown are to be treated as including a person so employed.
(4) The provisions are—
(a)section 24(3) (exemption for certain data relating to employment under the Crown), and
(b)section 209(6) (application of certain provisions to a person in the service of the Crown).
(5) In this article, references to a provision of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Data Protection Act 2018 have the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of that Act (see section 3(14) of that Act).]
Textual Amendments
F1Art. 7 substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 237 (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)