United Kingdom
Data Protection Act 2018
19 provisions
This Act sets rules for processing personal data, defines key terms, and gives the Commissioner and Secretary of State specific powers and duties.
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Data protection in United Kingdom
Personal data, privacy, cybersecurity duties, processing, and cross-border transfers. Every result links to its stored legal text and available official source evidence.
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United Kingdom
Data Protection Act 1998
1 provisions
This text amends earlier laws so that certain people can ask a credit reference agency to remove or correct incorrect file entries, and it gives the Data Protection Commissioner power to vary or revoke orders under section 159.
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Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
11 provisions
This Part lets the Secretary of State and the Treasury make regulations about access to customer data and business data, including how data holders must provide, produce, collect, retain, publish, or change data.
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Data Protection Act 1984 (repealed 1.3.2000)
3 provisions
This provision defines key data-protection terms and sets out registration, disclosure, transfer, access, enforcement, appeal, and offence rules for data users and computer bureaux.
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Investigatory Powers Act 2016
16 provisions
This Part sets privacy rules for investigatory powers, including when interception is lawful, when it is an offence, and who can issue or review warrants and penalties.
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Freedom of Information Act 2000
7 provisions
Public authorities must answer valid information requests, normally within 20 working days, and requesters can be told in writing whether the authority holds the information and receive it if it does.
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European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020
4 provisions
This part requires the designated UK authority to notify and keep records about certain convictions, and sets rules for sharing, requesting, retaining, and transferring related information.
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Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984
3 provisions
This Act lets the relevant Minister issue warrants to transfer detained persons between the UK and certain places outside the British Islands, but only when the treaty conditions, agreement, and any required consent are met.
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Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
8 provisions
This Part defines directed surveillance, intrusive surveillance, covert human intelligence sources, and criminal conduct authorisations, and sets out who may grant them and the conditions for doing so.
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Rare Cancers Act 2026
1 provisions
The Act requires the Secretary of State to review the law on orphan medicinal products for cancer, publish a report, and lay it before Parliament. It also expands rare-cancer research duties and gives NHS England a disclosure power for certain clinical-trial purposes, subject to data protection law.
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Rare Cancers Act 2026
1 provisions
The Secretary of State must review certain cancer-related marketing authorisations, publish a report within 3 years, and lay it before Parliament. The Act also expands research and disclosure powers around rare cancers, while limiting any information processing that would breach data protection law.
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Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Act 2025
1 provisions
This Act changes absent voting rules so regulations can support use of the UK digital service, handle related information sharing, and set commencement and transitional arrangements.
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