The Data Protection Bill, 2012
THE DATA PROTECTION BILL, 2012
A Bill for
AN ACT of Parliament to give effect to Article 31(c) and (d) of the Constitution;
to regulate the collection, retrieval, processing, storing, use and disclosure of
personal data and for connected purposes
PART I—PRELIMINARY
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Data Protection Act, 2012.
Interpretation.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“agency” includes public entities and private bodies;
"Cabinet Secretary" means the Cabinet Secretary responsible for
information and communications;
“Commission” means the Commission on Administrative
Justice
established by section 3 of the Commission on
Administrative Justice Act, 2011;
"Court" means the High Court or any other court with
jurisdiction under any law to adjudicate over matters relating to
data protection;
"data" means information which—
(a) is being processed by means of equipment operating
automatically in response to instructions given for that
purpose;
(b) is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by
means of such equipment;
(c) is recorded as part of a relevant filing system or with the
intention that it should form part of a relevant filing system;
(d) where it does not fall under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), forms
part of an accessible record;
(e) is recorded information held by public entity and does not
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