Paragraph 2 Transitional provision: first chairI1I2

This paragraph applies to the person who holds the office of Information Commissioner immediately before the day on which this Schedule comes into force.

The person is to be treated as having been appointed as the chair of the Information Commission for a term that expires at the time the person would cease to hold the office of Information Commissioner but for the abolition of that office by section 118.

For the purposes of paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 12A to the Data Protection Act 2018 (extension of chair’s term), the term of the person’s appointment as chair of the Information Commission is to be treated as a term beginning when the person began to hold the office of Information Commissioner.