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Data protection in United Kingdom

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.

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  • 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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  • 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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    Data Protection Act 1984 (repealed 1.3.2000)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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    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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  • United Kingdom

    Victims and Prisoners Act 2024

    4 provisions

    This Part defines “victim” and sets duties around the victims’ code, including what it must cover and who must follow it.

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  • United Kingdom

    Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007

    3 provisions

    This Part creates the Statistics Board and gives it powers and duties over official statistics, the Code of Practice, reporting, confidentiality, and some information disclosures.

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  • United Kingdom

    Trade (Disclosure of Information) Act 2020

    1 provisions

    The Secretary of State must make regulations to make sections 1 to 3 expire when corresponding Trade Bill provisions come into force; those regulations may also include transitional, transitory, or saving provision.

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  • United Kingdom

    Healthcare (International Arrangements) Act 2019

    1 provisions

    The Act lets the Secretary of State and devolved authorities make regulations for healthcare agreements and related payments, and sets conditions for consultation, consent, reporting, and data processing.

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  • United Kingdom

    Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014

    8 provisions

    This provision abolishes the Audit Commission, sets out audit and accounting duties for relevant authorities, and gives the Secretary of State powers to make regulations about registers, appointments, and related audit arrangements.

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  • United Kingdom

    Corporation Tax Act 2010

    51 provisions

    This Part sets out how a company’s corporation tax profits are worked out, including sterling conversion rules, rate rules, and some reliefs and claims.

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  • United Kingdom

    Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Act 2018

    1 provisions

    This Act establishes the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care, lets the Data Guardian issue guidance and advice on health and adult social care data in England, and requires certain bodies and providers to have regard to that guidance.

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  • United Kingdom

    Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024

    3 provisions

    This Act amends the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to add new rules for bulk personal datasets, including individual and category authorisations, third party warrants, approval requirements, reporting duties, and an offence for unlawful examination.

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