Data Protection and Manual Personnel Files - Transitional arrangements end in October 2007

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The Data Protection Act 1998, which came into force in March 2000, included a number of 'transitional relief' arrangements that allowed data controllers a set period of time to bring their personal information handling practices fully into line with the Act.

The Information Commissioner has reminded data controllers that the one remaining transitional relief arrangement ceases to apply at midnight on 23 October 2007. This arrangement relates to a number of certain manual (non-digitised) records created before 24 October 1998, including those held in structured manual filing systems. At the moment a data controller who processes such data is not bound by most of the requirements of the first five principles of the 1998 Act and the general right of data subjects to go to court to get inaccurate personal information corrected.

From 24 October, the provisions of the Act will apply in full to all manual personal records and data controllers should plan now to ensure full compliance by that date. The Act does not require that data controllers digitise or computerise old manual records.

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Further information:
Data Protection Act 1998 - End of Transitional Arrangements - October 2007

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