Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019
Rules, procedures and standards | ||
64. (1) The Minister may, for the purposes referred to in subsection (2), prescribe rules, procedures and standards in relation to— | ||
(a) the operation and use of base registries, | ||
(b) the accessing of personal data by persons— | ||
(i) employed by, or holding an office or other position in a public body, or | ||
(ii) employed by a person acting for or on behalf of a public body, | ||
(c) the recording of information relating to the accessing of personal data held by, or for or on behalf of, public bodies, | ||
(d) the management, preparation and publication of information for re-use by persons other than public bodies, | ||
(e) the processing of personal data by a public body designated in an order made under section 10 (4), | ||
(f) the conduct of data protection impact assessments by public bodies, and | ||
(g) other matters relating to the management of information held by public bodies. | ||
(2) The purposes referred to in subsection (1) are as follows: | ||
(a) to improve the quality and accuracy of information created, held and maintained by public bodies; | ||
(b) to promote increased sharing of information between public bodies in accordance with this Act and any other enactment providing for such sharing of information; | ||
(c) to ensure a consistent approach to the management of information by public bodies so as to facilitate the exchange of information between them; | ||
(d) to increase the usefulness of information held by public bodies for the purposes of— | ||
(i) performing their functions, | ||
(ii) modernising and developing public services, | ||
(iii) evaluating the effectiveness of services provided by public bodies, and | ||
(iv) evaluating the effectiveness of expenditure by public bodies; | ||
(e) to ensure that information is managed by public bodies in accordance with international best practice as regards data protection; | ||
(f) to improve the availability and accessibility for re-use and redistribution of information, other than personal data, held by public bodies. | ||
(3) A rule, procedure or standard prescribed under subsection (1)(a) shall apply to information— | ||
(a) collected for statistical purposes in accordance with the Statistics Act 1993 , or | ||
(b) disclosed in accordance with regulations made under section 2 of the Vital Statistics and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1952 . |