ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

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1. Part I

   Preliminary

   1. 1. Basic interpretative provisions.

   2. 2. Sensitive personal data.

   3. 3. The special purposes.

   4. 4. The data protection principles.

   5. 5. Application of Act.

   6. 6. The Commissioner and the Tribunal.

2. Part II

   Rights of data subjects and others

   1. 7. Right of access to personal data.

   2. 8. Provisions supplementary to section 7.

   3. 9. Application of section 7 where data controller is credit reference agency.

   4. 10. Right to prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress.

   5. 11. Right to prevent processing for purposes of direct marketing.

   6. 12. Rights in relation to automated decision-taking.

   7. 13. Compensation for failure to comply with certain requirements.

   8. 14. Rectification, blocking, erasure and destruction.

   9. 15. Jurisdiction and procedure.

3. Part III

   Notification by data controllers

   1. 16. Preliminary.

   2. 17. Prohibition on processing without registration.

   3. 18. Notification by data controllers.

   4. 19. Register of notifications.

   5. 20. Duty to notify changes.

   6. 21. Offences.

   7. 22. Preliminary assessment by Commissioner.

   8. 23. Power to make provision for appointment of data protection supervisors.

   9. 24. Duty of certain data controllers to make certain information available.

   10. 25. Functions of Commissioner in relation to making of notification regulations.

   11. 26. Fees regulations.

4. Part IV

   Exemptions

   1. 27. Preliminary.

   2. 28. National security.

   3. 29. Crime and taxation.

   4. 30. Health, education and social work.

   5. 31. Regulatory activity.

   6. 32. Journalism, literature and art.

   7. 33. Research, history and statistics.

   8. 34. Information available to the public by or under enactment.

   9. 35. Disclosures required by law or made in connection with legal proceedings etc.

   10. 36. Domestic purposes.

   11. 37. Miscellaneous exemptions.

   12. 38. Powers to make further exemptions by order.

   13. 39. Transitional relief.

5. Part V

   Enforcement

   1. 40. Enforcement notices.

   2. 41. Cancellation of enforcement notice.

   3. 42. Request for assessment.

   4. 43. Information notices.

   5. 44. Special information notices.

   6. 45. Determination by Commissioner as to the special purposes.

   7. 46. Restriction on enforcement in case of processing for the special purposes.

   8. 47. Failure to comply with notice.

   9. 48. Rights of appeal.

   10. 49. Determination of appeals.

   11. 50. Powers of entry and inspection.

6. Part VI

   Miscellaneous and General

   1. Functions of Commissioner

      1. 51. General duties of Commissioner.

      2. 52. Reports and codes of practice to be laid before Parliament.

      3. 53. Assistance by Commissioner in cases involving processing for the special purposes.

      4. 54. International co-operation.

   2. Unlawful obtaining etc. of personal data

      1. 55. Unlawful obtaining etc. of personal data.

   3. Records obtained under data subject´s right of access

      1. 56. Prohibition of requirement as to production of certain records.

      2. 57. Avoidance of certain contractual terms relating to health records.

   4. Information provided to Commissioner or Tribunal

      1. 58. Disclosure of information.

      2. 59. Confidentiality of information.

   5. General provisions relating to offences

      1. 60. Prosecutions and penalties.

      2. 61. Liability of directors etc.

   6. Amendments of Consumer Credit Act 1974

      1. 62. Amendments of Consumer Credit Act 1974.

   7. General

      1. 63. Application to Crown.

      2. 64. Transmission of notices etc. by electronic or other means.

      3. 65. Service of notices by Commissioner.

      4. 66. Exercise of rights in Scotland by children.

      5. 67. Orders, regulations and rules.

      6. 68. Meaning of "accessible record".

      7. 69. Meaning of "health professional".

      8. 70. Supplementary definitions.

      9. 71. Index of defined…