Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 159(7): Circuit Court Rules 2018.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Rules, which may be cited as the Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 159(7): Circuit Court) Rules 2018, shall come into operation on the 1st day of August 2018.
(2) These Rules shall apply to proceedings commenced on or after the 1st day of August 2018.
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paragraphs: In these Rules:
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paragraphs: (1) Subject to section 159(8)(a) of the 2018 Act and to any order made or direction given by the court in the proceedings concerned:
(a) at the request of a bona fide member of the Press or broadcast media (in this rule and rule 4, “the requester”) made to a person mentioned in sub-rule (2) (in this rule, “the person requested”), a disclosure of information, including personal data within the meaning of the Data Protection Regulation and the Directive, contained in a court record may be made to the requester by the person requested, for the purpose of facilitating the fair and accurate reporting of a hearing in the proceedings to which it relates;
(b) the disclosure may be made in a manner mentioned in sub-rule (3) and subject to the conditions mentioned in sub-rule (4).
(2) The persons who may make a disclosure authorised by sub-rule (1) are:
(i) an officer of the Circuit Court;
(ii) a member of the staff of the Courts Service employed in an office of, or attached to, the Circuit Court;
(iii) a contractor of the Courts Service who has been designated by the Courts Service with the consent of the President of the Circuit Court as authorised for the purposes of these Rules to make a disclosure (including, in the case of a corporate contractor, an officer or employee of such contractor).
(3) A person requested may make a disclosure authorised by these Rules by:
(i) allowing inspection by the requester of the court record in the proceedings concerned under the supervision of the person requested or another person referred to in sub-rule (2);
(ii) providing, or allowing the making by the requester of, a copy of a document forming part of the court file or court record which relates to the request, on the undertaking of the requester to return any such copy provided or made following the completion of the reporting of the hearing by the requester;
(iii) by the provision of a press release or the provision in oral or written form of other information concerning the proceedings prepared by that person.
(4) The conditions for granting a request are:
(i) that the requester has sufficiently verified to the satisfaction of the person requested his or her identity and his or her status as a bona fide member of the Press or broadcast media;
(ii) that the person requested is satisfied that the requester will comply with any undertaking given under sub-rule (3)(ii).
Other obligations of requester under data protection law not affected
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paragraphs: (1) Nothing in these Rules authorises the use of any information in any document included in a court record which has not been opened or is not deemed to have been opened at a hearing before the court.
(2) These Rules do not affect any obligation of a processor under or arising from any provision of the Data Protection Regulation, the Directive or the 2018 Act to which a requester is subject or will become subject if a request is granted.