[2003.]
Data Protection (Amendment) Act
2003.
[No. 6.]
(III) the purpose or purposes of the processing, S.5
and
(IV) the recipients or categories of recipients to
whom the data are or may be disclosed,
(iii) have communicated to him or her in intelligible form—
(I) the information constituting any personal
data of which that individual is the data
subject, and
(II) any information known or available to the
data controller as to the source of those
data unless the communication of that
information is contrary to the public
interest,
and
(iv) where the processing by automatic means of
the data of which the individual is the data
subject has constituted or is likely to constitute the sole basis for any decision significantly affecting him or her, be informed free
of charge by the data controller of the logic
involved in the processing,
as soon as may be and in any event not more than
40 days after compliance by the individual with the
provisions of this section and, where any of the
information is expressed in terms that are not
intelligible to the average person without explanation, the information shall be accompanied by
an explanation of those terms.
(b) A request under paragraph (a) of this subsection
that does not relate to all of its subparagraphs
shall, in the absence of any indication to the contrary, be treated as relating to all of them.’’,
(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection
(4):
‘‘(4A) (a) Where personal data relating to a data subject
consist of an expression of opinion about the
data subject by another person, the data may
be disclosed to the data subject without
obtaining the consent of that person to the
disclosure.
(b) Paragraph (a) of this subsection does not
apply—
(i) to personal data held by or on behalf of
the person in charge of an institution
referred to in section 5(1)(c) of this Act
and consisting of an expression of
opinion by another person about the data
subject if the data subject is being or was
detained in such an institution, or
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