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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

    Police and Justice Act 2006

    6 provisions

    This provision makes wide-ranging amendments about policing, criminal justice, local authority scrutiny, and related powers and procedures.

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  • United Kingdom

    Employment Rights Act 1996

    19 provisions

    Employers must give workers a written statement of employment particulars when work begins, and a written itemised pay statement when wages or salary are paid.

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  • United Kingdom

    Access to Personal Files Act 1987 (repealed 1.3.2000)

    1 provisions

    Authorities holding certain accessible personal information must follow the access and accuracy obligations set by regulations, and the Secretary of State may make regulations about access, rectification, erasure, fees, review, exemptions, and procedure.

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  • United Kingdom

    HGV Road User Levy Act 2013

    1 provisions

    This Act charges a levy on certain UK and non-UK heavy goods vehicles, sets out who must pay, and gives the Secretary of State powers to administer, adjust, and exempt parts of the regime.

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  • United Kingdom

    Mental Capacity Act 2005

    8 provisions

    This provision sets core rules for assessing capacity, acting in a person’s best interests, using lasting powers of attorney, court powers, deprivation of liberty, advance decisions, deputies, and research involving people who lack capacity.

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  • United Kingdom

    Banking Act 1979

    1 provisions

    This provision mainly makes amendments and savings related to banking and consumer credit law, including a rule that the Director must make a determination in certain debtor-creditor agreements unless it would be against the public interest.

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  • United Kingdom

    Food Standards Act 1999

    3 provisions

    This provision sets up the Food Standards Agency, gives it food-safety and consumer-protection functions, and gives it powers to inspect, report, publish, and issue guidance, with offences for obstruction or false information.

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  • United Kingdom

    Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990

    7 provisions

    This provision defines key terms and sets core rules for embryo and gamete activity, including licensing, storage limits, permitted uses, and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s functions.

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  • United Kingdom

    Children Act 2004

    5 provisions

    This provision sets out the Children’s Commissioner’s functions and duties, plus related safeguarding powers and duties for the Secretary of State, local authorities, and safeguarding partners.

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  • United Kingdom

    Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006

    5 provisions

    This provision creates the ISA/DBS framework, requires DBS to maintain barred lists, and makes it an offence to seek, offer, permit, or supply barred regulated activity.

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  • United Kingdom

    Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001

    7 provisions

    This provision sets up penalty notices for certain offences, powers to create educational course schemes, rules for closure notices/orders, and offences tied to travel restriction orders and intimidation.

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  • United Kingdom

    Public Service Pensions Act 2013

    3 provisions

    This Act lets scheme regulations create and manage public service pension schemes, with rules for scheme managers, boards, consultation, Treasury consent, reporting, records, and pension age settings.

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  • United Kingdom

    Finance Act 2021

    18 provisions

    This provision sets and changes several UK tax rates and allowances, and amends rules for capital allowances, employment income, and related anti-avoidance provisions.

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  • United Kingdom

    Police Act 1997

    8 provisions

    The provision lets certain officers authorise entry, interference with property, and wireless telegraphy only when statutory conditions are met, and it requires judicial oversight for some authorisations.

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  • United Kingdom

    Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009

    17 provisions

    This provision establishes the Marine Management Organisation and gives it broad powers and duties to regulate marine activities, while setting out the Secretary of State’s oversight powers.

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