{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Protection of personal data",
  "text": "(1) The UK GDPR and this Act protect individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, in particular by—\n(a) requiring personal data to be processed lawfully and fairly, on the basis of the data subject's consent or another specified basis,\n(b) conferring rights on the data subject to obtain information about the processing of personal data and to require inaccurate personal data to be rectified, and\n(c) conferring functions on the Commission, giving it responsibility for monitoring and enforcing their provisions.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) substituted (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. 2 para. 3 (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1)(c) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 23(4); S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 2(2) omitted (20.8.2025) by virtue of Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), ss. 91(2), 142(1); S.I. 2025/904, reg. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 25.5.2018 by S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:55.804064+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}