{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Processing to which this Part applies",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies to—\n(a) the processing by a competent authority of personal data wholly or partly by automated means, and\n(b) the processing by a competent authority otherwise than by automated means of personal data which forms part of a filing system or is intended to form part of a filing system.\n(1A) This Part does not apply to processing to which Part 4 applies by virtue of a designation notice (see section 82A).\n(2) Any reference in this Part to the processing of personal data is to processing to which this Part applies.\n(3) For the meaning of “competent authority”, see section 30.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 29(1A) inserted (17.11.2025) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), ss. 90(3), 142(1); S.I. 2025/996, reg. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 29 in force at 25.5.2018 by S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:00:05.588950+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."
  }
}