The Data Protection (Processing of Sensitive Personal Data) (Elected Representatives) Order 2002

Made: 19th November 2002

Coming into force: 17th December 2002

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SCHEDULE — CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA MAY BE PROCESSED

Interpretation

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Processing by elected representatives

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Processing limited to disclosures to elected representatives

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Signed

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Yvette Cooper — Parliamentary Secretary, — Lord Chancellor’s Department — 19th November 2002

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1998 c. 29. The functions of the Secretary of State under section 67 of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to, the Data Protection Act 1998 were transferred to the Lord Chancellor by Article 3 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Miscellaneous) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3500). Article 8 of, and paragraphs 6(v) and (z) of Schedule 2 to, that Order amended section 67 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Data Protection Act 1998 so as to refer to the Lord Chancellor.

[^f00002]: The Data Protection Commissioner became the Information Commissioner on 30th January 2001 by virtue of sections 18(1) and 87(2)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36). The consultation requirement in section 67(3) of the Data Protection Act 1998 now refers to the Information Commissioner as the definitions of “the Commissioner” in sections 6(1) and 70(1) of that Act have been amended by paragraphs 13(2) and 14(a) of Schedule 2 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

[^f00003]: Additional circumstances in which sensitive personal data may be processed are specified in the Data Protection (Processing of Sensitive Personal Data) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/417).

[^f00004]: 1972 c. 70.

[^f00005]: 2000 c. 22.

[^f00006]: 1994 c. 39.

[^f00007]: 1972 c. 9 (N. I.).

[^f00008]: 1998 c. 38. Section 2(5) provides that “The term of office of an Assembly member—(a) begins when he is declared to be returned as an Assembly member, and (b) continues until the end of the day before the day of the poll at the next ordinary election.” By section 2(4), “An ordinary election involves the holding of elections for the return of the entire Assembly.”

[^f00009]: By section 2 of the Act of Common Council made on 14th June 1984, the annual Wardmotes for the election of Common Councilmen to the Common Council of the City of London are held on the first Friday in December each year, and persons elected as Common Councilmen cease to hold office at midnight on the Thursday immediately preceding the day of the next annual Wardmotes. (Copies of the Act of Common Council made on 14th June 1984 can be obtained from the Town Clerk’s Department, Corporation of London, PO Box 270, Guildhall, London EC2P 2EJ.)

Editorial notes

[^key-384062572b1bec9bce5948145ffe52ae]: Order revoked (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 290 (with ss. 117, 209, 210 and saving in Sch. 20 para. 58(2)); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)