Legislation – Data Protection Act 2018
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PART 7Supplementary and final provision
General
210Application to Parliament
(1)
Parts 1, 2 and 5 to 7 of this Act apply to the processing of personal data by or on behalf of either House of Parliament.
(2)
Where the purposes for which and the manner in which personal data is, or is to be, processed are determined by or on behalf of the House of Commons, the controller in respect of that data for the purposes of the F1UK GDPR and this Act is the Corporate Officer of that House.
(3)
Where the purposes for which and the manner in which personal data is, or is to be, processed are determined by or on behalf of the House of Lords, the controller in respect of that data for the purposes of the F2UK GDPR and this Act is the Corporate Officer of that House.
(4)
Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply where the purposes for which and the manner in which the personal data is, or is to be, processed are determined by or on behalf of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.
(5)
As regards criminal liability—
(a)
nothing in subsection (2) or (3) makes the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons or the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords liable to prosecution under this Act;
(b)
a person acting on behalf of either House of Parliament is liable to prosecution under the provisions of this Act listed in subsection (6).
(6)
Those provisions are—
(a)
section 170;
(b)
section 171;
(c)
section 173;
(d)
paragraph 15 of Schedule 15.