{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-1993/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-1993/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1813",
  "legislation_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-1993",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application of enactments",
  "text": "(1) All frontier control enactments except those relating to transport and road traffic controls shall for the purpose of enabling officers belonging to the United Kingdom to carry out frontier controls extend to France within a control zone.\n(1A) All frontier control enactments relating to transport and road traffic controls shall for the purpose of enabling officers belonging to the United Kingdom to carry out such controls extend to France within the control zone in France within the tunnel system.\n(1AA) All security control enactments shall for the purpose of enabling officers belonging to the United Kingdom to carry out security controls extend to France within the tunnel system.\n(1B) All immigration control enactments shall, for the purpose of enabling immigration officers to carry out immigration controls, extend to France within a supplementary control zone.\n(1C) The Equality Act 2010 shall apply to the carrying out by immigration officers of their functions in a control zone or a supplementary control zone outside the United Kingdom as it applies to the carrying out of their functions within the United Kingdom.\n(2) For the purposes of Article 3 of the UK GDPR and section 207 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (“the 2018 Act”), data which is—\n(a) processed within a control zone in France in connection with the carrying out of frontier controls by an officer belonging to the United Kingdom, ...\n(b) processed within a supplementary control zone in France in connection with the carrying out of immigration controls by an immigration officer, or\n(c) processed within the tunnel system in France in connection with the carrying out of security controls by an officer belonging to the United Kingdom,\nshall be treated as processed by a controller established in the United Kingdom in the context of the activities of that establishment (and the UK GDPR and the 2018 Act shall accordingly apply in respect of such data).\n(3) For the purposes of Article 3 of the UK GDPR and section 207 of the 2018 Act, data which is—\n(a) processed within a control zone in the United Kingdom in connection with the carrying out of frontier controls by an officer belonging to the French Republic, or\n(b) processed within a supplementary control zone in the United Kingdom in connection with the carrying out of immigration controls by such an officer,\nshall be treated as processed by a controller established in France in the context of the activities of that establishment (and the UK GDPR and the 2018 Act shall accordingly not apply in respect of such data).\n(4) In this article, “the UK GDPR” has the meaning given in section 3(10) of the Data Protection Act 2018.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) inserted (2.10.1996) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2283), arts. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 4(1A) inserted (2.10.1996) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2283), arts. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 4(1AA) inserted (6.7.2012 as notified in the London Gazette dated 26.7.2012) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1264), arts. 1(2)(3), 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 4(1B) inserted (25.5.2001) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment No. 3) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1544), arts. 1(2), 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 4(1C) inserted (10.12.2001) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment No. 4) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3707), arts. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1C) substituted (30.9.2020) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/915), arts. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 4(2) substituted (25.5.2001) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment No. 3) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1544), arts. 1(2), 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 27(2)(a) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(2)(a) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in art. 4(2) omitted (6.7.2012 as notified in the London Gazette dated 26.7.2012) by virtue of The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1264), arts. 1(2)(3), 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Art. 4(2)(c) and word inserted (6.7.2012 as notified in the London Gazette dated 26.7.2012) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1264), arts. 1(2)(3), 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(2)(b) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) inserted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(2)(c) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(2)(d) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 27(2)(b) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Art. 4(3) substituted (25.5.2001) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment No. 3) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1544), arts. 1(2), 3(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 27(3)(a) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(3)(a) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(3)(b) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) inserted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(3)(c) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 229(3)(d) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F22",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 27(3)(b) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F23",
      "text": "Art. 4(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 27(4) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 comes into force at 2.8.1993 as notified in the London Gazette dated 6.8.1993, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:53:17.350099+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}