{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-98.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018",
  "path": "section/98",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Right to information about decision-making",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) the controller processes personal data relating to a data subject, and\n(b) results produced by the processing are applied to the data subject,\nthe data subject is entitled to obtain from the controller, on request, knowledge of the reasoning underlying the processing.\n(2) Where the data subject makes a request under subsection (1), the controller must comply with the request without undue delay.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 98 in force at 25.5.2018 by S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/98",
    "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."
  }
}