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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to individuals; to make provision in connection with the Information Commissioner's functions under certain regulations relating to information; to make provision for a direct marketing code of practice; and for connected purposes.\n[23rd May 2018]\nBe it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (23.5.2019) by The Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/957), arts. 1, 15(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act modified (14.2.2020) by The Northamptonshire (Structural Changes) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/156), arts. 1, 17(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act excluded (30.9.2020) by The Channel Tunnel (Arrangements with the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/916), arts. 1(2)(b)4(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act applied (30.9.2020) by The Channel Tunnel (Arrangements with the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/916), arts. 1(2)(b), 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EU) No. 625/2017, Art. 143 (as substituted by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 27(3) (with reg. 46))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (18.3.2022) by The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/331), arts. 1(1), 18(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act modified (6.6.2022) by Dormant Assets Act 2022 (c. 5), ss. 25, 34(3); S.I. 2022/582, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act modified (10.3.2026) by The Surrey (Structural Changes) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/264), arts. 1(1), 28(2)(e), 40(2)(e)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:55.804064+00:00",
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