{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Meaning of “controller”",
  "text": "(1) The definition of “controller” in Article 4(1)(7) of the UK GDPR has effect subject to—\n(a) subsection (2),\n(b) section 209, and\n(c) section 210.\n(2) For the purposes of the UK GDPR, where personal data is processed only—\n(a) for purposes for which it is required by an enactment to be processed, and\n(b) by means by which it is required by an enactment to be processed,\nthe person on whom the obligation to process the data is imposed by the enactment (or, if different, one of the enactments) is the controller.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 6 substituted (5.2.2026) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), ss. 67(2), 142(1); S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(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. 9 (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(2) 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. 9 (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 25.5.2018 by S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/6",
    "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."
  }
}