VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA
A 782
PART I
Preliminary
Short title.
Purpose of the
Act.
Interpretation.
1.
The short title of this Act is the Data Protection Act, 2018.
2. This Act implements and further specifies the relevant
provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural
persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free
movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General
Data Protection Regulation).
3.
(1)
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires -
"Commissioner" means the Information and Data Protection
Commissioner appointed under article 11 and includes any officer or
employee of the Commissioner authorised by him in that behalf;
Cap. 258.
"identity document" means a legally valid identity document as
provided in the Identity Card and other Identity Documents Act;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for data protection;
"official statistics" shall mean information collected, analysed
and produced for the benefit of the society to characterize collective
phenomena in a considered population and produced by the National
Statistics Office as provided for by law, or by other national
authorities as designated by Eurostat following recommendation by
the National Statistics Office;
"the Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the
protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal
data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive
95/46/EC;
"Tribunal" means the Information and Data Protection Appeals
Tribunal established under article 24.
(2) The definitions in Article 4 of the Regulation shall apply to
this Act.
PART II
Applicability
Scope.
4. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (2), the
provisions of this Act shall apply to the processing of personal data,