[No. 6.]
S.11
Data Protection (Amendment) Act
2003.
[2003.]
‘‘(b) if such compliance materially modifies the data concerned, any person to whom the data were disclosed during the period beginning 12 months
before the date of the service of the enforcement
notice concerned and ending immediately before
such compliance unless such notification proves
impossible or involves a disproportionate effort,
of the blocking, rectification, erasure, destruction or
statement concerned.’’.
Restriction on
transfer of personal
data outside State.
12.—The following section is substituted for section 11 of the Principal Act:
‘‘11.—(1) The transfer of personal data to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area may not take place
unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the privacy and the fundamental rights and freedoms
of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data
having regard to all the circumstances surrounding the transfer
and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing, to—
(a) the nature of the data,
(b) the purposes for which and the period during which the
data are intended to be processed,
(c) the country or territory of origin of the information contained in the data,
(d) the country or territory of final destination of that
information,
(e) the law in force in the country or territory referred to
in paragraph (d),
(f) any relevant codes of conduct or other rules which are
enforceable in that country or territory,
(g) any security measures taken in respect of the data in
that country or territory, and
(h) the international obligations of that country or
territory.
(2) (a) Where in any proceedings under this Act a question
arises—
(i) whether the adequate level of protection specified in subsection (1) of this section is ensured
by a country or territory outside the European
Economic Area to which personal data are to
be transferred, and
(ii) a Community finding has been made in relation
to transfers of the kind in question,
the question shall be determined in accordance with
that finding.
(b) In paragraph (a) of this subsection ‘Community finding’
means a finding of the European Commission made
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