{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003/regulation-29A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003/regulation-29A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2426",
  "legislation_title": "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/29A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where regulations 28 and 29 apply, communications providers must establish and maintain internal procedures for responding to requests for access to users’ personal data.\n(2) Communications providers shall on demand provide the Information Commission with information about—\n(a) those procedures;\n(b) the number of requests received;\n(c) the legal justification for the request; and\n(d) the communications provider’s response.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 29A inserted (26.5.2011) by The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1208), regs. 1(1), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 29A(2) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(3)(4)(f); S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/regulation/29A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:58:14.928783+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."
}