Art. 3 Interpretation. — DATA PROTECTION ACT

(1)

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires

"Commissioner" means the Information and Data Protection

Commissioner appointed under article 11 and includes any officer or

employee of the Commissioner authorised by him in that behalf;

"identity document" means a legally valid identity document

as provided in the Identity Card and other Identity Documents Act;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for data protection;

"official statistics" shall mean information collected, analysed

and produced for the benefit of the society to characterize collective

phenomena in a considered population and produced by the National

Statistics Office as provided for by law, or by other national

authorities as designated by Eurostat following recommendation by

the National Statistics Office;

"the Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the

protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of

personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing

Directive 95/46/EC;

"Tribunal" means the Information and Data Protection Appeals

Tribunal established under article 24.

(2) The definitions in Article 4 of the Regulation shall apply to

this Act.

PART II

Applicability

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