Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 416
DATA PROTECTION
The Data Protection (Crown Appointments) Order 2000
Made
17th February 2000
Coming into force
1st March 2000
Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Data Protection Act 1998( 1 ), and after consultation with the Data Protection Commissioner in accordance with section 67(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Data Protection (Crown Appointments) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st March 2000.
2. There shall be exempted from the subject information provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 (as defined by section 27(2) of that Act) personal data processed for the purposes of assessing any person’s suitability for any of the offices listed in the Schedule to this Order.
Mike O'Brien
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Home Office
17th February 2000
Article 2
SCHEDULE EXEMPTIONS FROM SUBJECT INFORMATION PROVISIONS
Offices to which appointments are made by Her Majesty:—
(a) Archbishops, diocesan and suffragan bishops in the Church of England
(b) Deans of cathedrals of the Church of England
(c) Deans and Canons of the two Royal Peculiars
(d) The First and Second Church Estates Commissioners
(e) Lord-Lieutenants
(f) Masters of Trinity College and Churchill College, Cambridge
(g) The Provost of Eton
(h) The Poet Laureate
(i) The Astronomer Royal