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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-protection-processing-of-sensitive-personal-data-elected-representatives-order-2002/schedule/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/011042851X",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection (Processing of Sensitive Personal Data) (Elected Representatives) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-protection-processing-of-sensitive-personal-data-elected-representatives-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Processing by elected representatives",
  "text": "The processing—\n(a) is carried out by an elected representative or a person acting with his authority;\n(b) is in connection with the discharge of his functions as such a representative;\n(c) is carried out pursuant to a request made by an individual other than the data subject to the elected representative to take action on behalf of the data subject or any other individual;\n(d) is necessary for the purposes of, or in connection with, the action reasonably taken by the elected representative pursuant to that request; and\n(e) is carried out without the explicit consent of the data subject because the processing—\n(i) is necessary in a case where explicit consent cannot be given by the data subject,\n(ii) is necessary in a case where the elected representative cannot reasonably be expected to obtain the explicit consent of the data subject,\n(iii) must necessarily be carried out without the explicit consent of the data subject being sought so as not to prejudice the action taken by the elected representative, or\n(iv) is necessary in the interests of another individual in a case where the explicit consent of the data subject has been unreasonably withheld.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2002/011042851X/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:51.985731+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
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