Data Protection Act, 1988 36 of 50 https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1988/act/25/enacted/en/print.html?printonload=true Article 3 Scope 1. The Parties undertake to apply this convention to automated personal data files and automatic processing of personal data in the public and private sectors. 2. Any State may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, or at any later time, give notice by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe: a. that it will not apply this convention to certain categories of automated personal data files, a list of which will be deposited. In this list it shall not include, however, categories of automated data files subject under its domestic law to data protection provisions. Consequently, it shall amend this list by a new declaration whenever additional categories of automated personal data files are subjected to data protection provisions under its domestic law; b. that it will also apply this convention to information relating to groups of persons, associations, foundations, companies, corporations and any other bodies consisting directly or indirectly of individuals, whether or not such bodies possess legal personality; c. that it will also apply this convention to personal data files which are not processed automatically. 3. Any State which has extended the scope of this convention by any of the declarations provided for in subparagraph 2.b or c above may give notice in the said declaration that such extensions shall apply only to certain categories of personal data files, a list of which will be deposited. 4. Any Party which has excluded certain categories of automated personal data files by a declaration provided for in sub-paragraph 2.a above may not claim the application of this convention to such categories by a Party which has not excluded them. 5. Likewise, a Party which has not made one or other of the extensions provided for in sub-paragraphs 2.b or c above may not claim the application of this convention on these points with respect to a Party which has made such extensions. 21.02.23, 18:36