Esheria Regulatory Atlas

Data protection in Northern Ireland

Personal data, privacy, cybersecurity duties, processing, and cross-border transfers. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

69 matching statutes

• Northern Ireland

  Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2026

  2 provisions

  This Act authorises spending and borrowing for Northern Ireland departments and named bodies for the years ending 31 March 2026 and 31 March 2027.

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• Northern Ireland

  Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

  11 provisions

  This Part sets rules for deciding when a person aged 16 or over lacks capacity and how best-interests decisions must be made.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2024

  2 provisions

  This provision authorises specified public bodies to use resources and income within set limits for the year ending 31 March 2025, and restricts spending to the authorised purpose or category.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

  7 provisions

  This part reorganises court administration, sets rules for lay magistrate appointments, creates prosecutorial fine procedures, and requires victim and witness charters.

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• Northern Ireland

  The Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

  7 provisions

  This provision sets out gas licensing and exemption rules, including when gas activities need a licence, how exemptions may be granted, and some certification and closed-system procedures.

  Order Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001

  1 provisions

  This provision sets rules for intercountry adoption, gives the Department and other authorities powers and duties, creates offences for non-compliance, and provides for recognition and registration of certain adoptions.

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• Northern Ireland

  The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008

  6 provisions

  This Part defines key sentencing terms and sets rules for custodial sentencing, pre-sentence reports, release on licence, and related powers of the Secretary of State, the Department of Justice, the courts, and the Parole Commissioners.

  Order Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  The Access to Personal Files and Medical Reports (Northern Ireland) Order 1991

  1 provisions

  This Order gives individuals access rights to medical reports about them used for employment or insurance purposes, and sets notice, consent, access, amendment, retention, and confidentiality rules.

  Order Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2024

  2 provisions

  This Act authorises specified public bodies to use set amounts of resources and income for the years ending 31 March 2024 and 31 March 2025, and gives the Department of Finance borrowing and issue powers within stated limits.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

  5 provisions

  This provision sets commencement rules and gives the Department and school bodies a range of curriculum, religious education, information, and school-governance duties and powers.

  Order Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  The Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

  4 provisions

  This part creates and governs youth conferences for children, including who may participate, how plans are set up, and when court or prosecution action is paused.

  Order Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

  4 provisions

  This provision defines key terms and sets out core sex discrimination and harassment rules for employment, contract work, and appointments in Northern Ireland.

  Order Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Insolvency (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2026

  4 provisions

  This Act amends Northern Ireland insolvency law, including decision procedures, liquidator powers, creditor notices, and some offence provisions.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2025

  2 provisions

  This Act authorises spending, use of resources, and borrowing for specified Northern Ireland public services and sets limits and conditions for using those sums.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

  2 provisions

  This provision adds early conciliation steps before certain tribunal claims, gives the Department power to make related regulations, and introduces duties on employers for gender pay reporting, careers guidance, and some whistleblowing and zero-hours matters.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014

  2 provisions

  This Act requires tobacco retailers to register, limits sales and premises use without the right licence, and gives councils and officers enforcement powers.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

  2 provisions

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  The Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992

  4 provisions

  This provision sets up how unions and employers’ associations are recognised, registered, reported on, and inspected, and gives the Certification Officer powers and duties to maintain lists, issue certificates, and oversee financial compliance.

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• Northern Ireland

  Libraries Act (Northern Ireland) 2008

  1 provisions

  This Act creates the Northern Ireland Library Authority and gives it responsibility for public library services in Northern Ireland.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Northern Ireland

  The Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999

  4 provisions

  This provision sets up the Department’s water-protection role, defines key terms, and creates offences, exemptions, notices, appeals, and penalties for polluting discharges and related non-compliance.

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