Data Protection [No. 3 of 2021 91 GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA ACT No. 3 of 2021 Date of Assent: 23rd March, 2021 An Act to provide an effective system for the use and protection of personal data; regulate the collection, use, transmission, storage and otherwise processing of personal data; establish the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner and provide for its functions; the registration of data controllers and licencing of data auditors; provide for the duties of data controllers and data processors; provide for the rights of data subjects; and provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing. [24th March, 2021 ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. Enactment PART I PRELIMINARY 1. This Act may be cited as the Data Protection Act, 2021, and shall come into operation on the date appointed by the Minister by statutory instrument. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “anonymisation” means the process of removing direct and indirect personal identifiers that may lead to an individual being identified; Short title and commencement Interpretation