Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022

PART 4

Amendments to Act of 1997

Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1997

31. Section 2 of the Act of 1997 is amended by the insertion of the following definitions:

“‘Act of 2022’ means the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022;

‘approval’, in relation to a proposal under section 23A, means an approval given under section 23A(5) or renewed under section 23A(11) in respect of the CCTV scheme which is the subject of the proposal;

‘approved CCTV scheme’ means a CCTV scheme which is the subject of a proposal in respect of which an approval is in being;

‘authorised person’ means a person who is appointed in writing by a local authority to be an authorised person for the purposes of this Act or any provisions thereof as the local authority determines;

‘automatic number plate recognition device’ means a device which engages an automated method of recognising vehicle registration plates from a camera image;

‘biometric data’ has the meaning given to it by section 69 (1) of the Data Protection Act 2018 ;

‘CCTV scheme’ has the meaning given to it by section 23A(1);

‘closed circuit television’ or ‘CCTV’ means a system of recording devices the signals of which are not made publicly available but are monitored, or are capable of being monitored, by a local authority;

‘code of practice’ means a code of practice approved by the Minister in accordance with section 23B and includes part of a code of practice;

‘facial recognition device’ means a device or system of devices which, through automated use of biometric data, matches or categorises facial images captured by the device;

‘operation’, in relation to closed circuit television, includes the maintenance and monitoring of closed circuit television;

‘recording device’ means a device that is capable of recording or processing, or both, visual images or audio, or both, on any medium, from which a visual image or moving visual images may be produced and includes any accompanying document, and, where only visual images or moving visual images are concerned, includes any sound accompanying those images but does not include automatic number plate recognition devices or facial recognition devices;”.