Section 183A Protection of prohibitions and restrictions etc on processing: relevant enactments

F1A relevant enactment or rule of law which imposes a duty, or confers a power, to process personal data does not override a requirement under the main data protection legislation relating to the processing of personal data.

Subsection (1) does not apply—

Subsection (1) does not prevent a duty or power to process personal data from being taken into account for the purpose of determining whether it is possible to rely on an exception to a requirement under the main data protection legislation that is available where there is such a duty or power.

In this section—

• “the main data protection legislation” means the data protection legislation other than provision of or made under—

  1. Chapter 6 or 8 of the UK GDPR, or

  2. Parts 5 to 7 of this Act;

• “relevant enactment” means an enactment so far as passed or made on or after F220th August 2025;

• “requirement” includes a prohibition or restriction.

The reference in subsection (1) to an enactment or rule of law which imposes a duty, or confers a power, to process personal data is a reference to an enactment or rule of law which, directly or indirectly, requires or authorises the processing of personal data, including (for example)—

and the references in subsection (3) to a duty or power are to be read accordingly.