Data Protection Act 1998 comes into force
Implementation date: 1 March 2000
The Act replaces the Data Protection Act 1984
and implements in the UK the Data Protection Directive. The Act creates three
fundamental obligations of notification, abiding by the data protection
principles and observing the rights of data subjects. It created two periods of
transitional relief that prevent it from coming fully into force on 1 March
2000. The first transitional relief period ends on 24 October 2001 and gives
employees the right to access personal data held on them by employers. The
second transitional relief period ends on 24 October 2007, when manual or
paper-based records held in a 'relevant filing system' developed before 24
October 1998 must fully comply with the Act. The Act can be viewed on the OPSI website.
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