{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002-juxtaposed-controls-order-2003/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002-juxtaposed-controls-order-2003/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2818",
  "legislation_title": "The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002-juxtaposed-controls-order-2003",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Disapplication of law of England and Wales",
  "text": "(1) The law of England and Wales shall not have effect in relation to any claim for compensation which may be alleged against, or by, an officer belonging to the French Republic for loss or injury in the exercise of his functions in a Control Zone in the United Kingdom and any such claim shall be subject to the law of the French Republic as if the circumstances giving rise to the claim had occurred in France.\n(2) The UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 shall not have effect in relation to data which is processed within a Control Zone in the United Kingdom in connection with the carrying out of immigration control by an officer belonging to the French Republic.\n(2A) In paragraph (2), “the UK GDPR” has the meaning given in section 3(10) of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n(3) No charge shall be payable under section 40(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (charge in respect of passenger without proper documents) by the owner of a ship in respect of any individual who is shown by the owner to have embarked on the ship for the voyage to the United Kingdom after having passed through a Control Zone in France.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 8(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. 3 para. 46(2) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 8(2) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 295(b) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 8(2A) inserted (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. 3 para. 46(3) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 comes into force in accordance with art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 33. Section 40 was substituted by paragraph 13 of Schedule 8 to the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2818/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:45:47.519155+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."
}