Data Protection (Registration) Regulations, 1988.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the Data Protection (Registration) Regulations, 1988.
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paragraphs: These Regulations shall come into force on the 9th day of January, 1989.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations "the Act" means the Data Protection Act, 1988 .
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paragraphs: An application by a person wishing to be registered in the register established and maintained by the Data Protection Commissioner under section 16 (2) of the Act or to have a registration continued under section 18 of the Act or to have particulars in an entry in the register altered shall be made by completing the appropriate form specified in the Schedule to these Regulations or a form to the like effect.
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paragraphs: The information required to be furnished to the Data Protection Commissioner by a person referred to in Regulation 4 shall be that specified in the appropriate form and any other information that the Commissioner may require to enable him to deal either with a particular application or with applications generally (in which case he may require the information to be furnished by way of an addition to the appropriate form).
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paragraphs: The particulars to be included in an entry in the register in relation to a data controller to whom section 16 of the Act applies shall be:
(a) name and address;
(b) purpose or purposes for which he keeps or uses personal data;
(c) description of the data;
(d) persons or categories of persons (other than persons to whom data are disclosed pursuant to section 8 of the Act) to whom the data may be disclosed;
(e) countries or territories to which the data may be directly or indirectly transferred;
(f) if the source from which the data, and any information intended for inclusion in the data, are obtained is required by the Commissioner to be described in the entry, the persons or categories of persons from whom the data and information are obtained;
(g) if the data controller is not the person to whom requests for information under section 4 (1) (a) of the Act should be addressed, the name or job status and address of that person;
(h) date on which the entry was made or, as the case may be, from which the relevant registration was continued;
(i) a reference to any other entry in the register relating to the data controller.
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paragraphs: In the case of a data processor whose business consists wholly or partly in processing personal data on behalf of data controllers and who is not himself a data controller to whom section 16 of the Act applies, the particulars to be included in the relevant entry in the register shall be his name and address.
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paragraphs: (a) In the case of a partnership which has applied to be registered in the register, the name of the partnership and of each of the partners shall be included in the entry in the register.
(b) In the case of a company (within the meaning of the Companies Acts, 1963 to 1987) which has so applied, the address to be so included shall be that of its registered office.
(c) In the case of a person (other than such a company) carrying on a business who has so applied, the address shall be that of his principal place of business.