Legislation – Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
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- s. 103 coming into force by S.I. 2026/82 reg. 3(a)
- Sch. 10 para. 1 coming into force by S.I. 2026/82 reg. 3(b)
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- Sch. 10 para. 8 coming into force by S.I. 2026/82 reg. 3(b)
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- Sch. 10 para. 10 coming into force by S.I. 2026/82 reg. 3(b)
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- Sch. 10 para. 20 coming into force by S.I. 2026/82 reg. 3(b)
- Sch. 10 para. 21 coming into force by S.I. 2026/82 reg. 3(b)
Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
An Act to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about the recording and sharing, and keeping of registers, of information relating to apparatus in streets; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to make provision about the grant of smart meter communication licences; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision about the retention of information by providers of internet services in connection with investigations into child deaths; to make provision about providing information for purposes related to the carrying out of independent research into online safety matters; to make provision about the retention of biometric data; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about works protected by copyright and the development of artificial intelligence systems; to make provision about the creation of purported intimate images; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—