Data Protection Act 2018

Amendment of section 142 of Consumer Credit Act 1995

181. Section 142 of the Consumer Credit Act 1995 is amended—

(a) in subsection (2), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) which relates to information that constitutes personal data to which the Data Protection Regulation applies.”,

(b) in subsection (4), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) which relates to information that constitutes personal data to which the Data Protection Regulation applies.”,

and

(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (4):

“(5) In this section, ‘Data Protection Regulation’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 201619 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).”.

19 OJ No. L 119, 4.5.2016, p.1