Clause 31 - Disclosure of information
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Mr Joe Benton (Bootle, Labour)
I remind the Committee that with this we are discussing amendment No. 23, in
clause 31, page 18, line 28, leave out subsection (7) and insert—
'(7) Nothing in this section authorises the making of a disclosure which contravenes the Data Protection Act 1998 (c.29).
(7A) Notwithstanding subsection (7), any disclosure or processing of information under subsection (1) for the purposes set out in subsection (2) in performance of functions referred to in section 13 shall be deemed to be necessary to be processed for the exercise of any such functions for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, in particular Section 35 (disclosures required by law or made in connection with legal proceedings etc) and schedules 1 (data protection principles), 2 (conditions relevant for the purposes of the first principle: Processing of any personal data) and 3 (conditions relevant for the purposes of the first principle: Processing of sensitive personal data) of that Act'.