(c) where before that day a person signed any entry in the register, the entry is to continue, on and after that day, to be regarded for the purposes of that Act as having been signed by the person, and
(d) the Registrar General may dispose of—
(i) any certified copies held by the Registrar General of entries in the register, or
(ii) any information contained in those entries which is held by the Registrar General in electronic form by virtue of section 27 of that Act.
(6) The period referred to in subsection (5) is the period—
(a) beginning with 1 July 2009, and
(b) ending immediately before the day on which section 61 comes into force.
(7) Expressions used in this section and in the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 have the same meaning in this section as in that Act.
I115 S. 64 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 142(1)
65 Minor and consequential amendments U.K.
Schedule 3 contains minor and consequential amendments.
I116 S. 65 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 142(1)
Part 5 U.K. Data protection and privacy
Chapter 1 U.K. Data protection
Terms used in this Chapter U.K.
66 The 2018 Act and the UK GDPR U.K.
In this Chapter—
“ the 2018 Act ” means the Data Protection Act 2018;
“ the UK GDPR ” 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.
I117 S. 66 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 142(2)(a)
Definitions in the UK GDPR and the 2018 Act U.K.
67 Meaning of research and statistical purposes U.K.
(1) In Article 4 of the UK GDPR (definitions)—
(a) the existing text becomes paragraph 1, and
(b) after that paragraph insert—
“ 2. References in this Regulation to the processing of personal data for the purposes of scientific research (including references to processing for “scientific research purposes”) are references to processing for the purposes of any research that can reasonably be described as scientific, whether publicly or privately funded and whether carried out as a commercial or non-commercial activity.