Institutional Burials Act 2022
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Request for information contained in database and related records of Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes | ||
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29. (1) A Director may, where necessary and proportionate for the performance by the Director of his or her functions under this Act, request the Child and Family Agency to disclose information, including personal data and special categories of personal data, contained in the database and related records. | ||
(2) The Child and Family Agency shall comply with a request from a Director under subsection (1). | ||
(3) The Director may, for the purposes of performing his or her functions under this Act, process personal data and special categories of personal data disclosed to him or her pursuant to a request under subsection (1). | ||
(4) In this section— | ||
“Commission” means the commission of investigation established by the Order of 2015; | ||
“database” means the databases of residents of the institutions (specified in the Appendix to the terms of reference of the Commission set out in the Schedule to the Order of 2015) created by the Commission; | ||
“Order of 2015” means the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Order 2015 ( S.I. No. 57 of 2015 ); | ||
“related record” means— | ||
(a) any evidence within the meaning of the Act of 2004 received by the Commission, | ||
(b) any document created by or for the Commission within the meaning of section 43 of the Act of 2004, or | ||
(c) a copy of any such evidence or document, | ||
from which information was obtained for the purpose of creating the database. |