XXVI tal-2012

I assent.

G EORGE A BELA

(L.S.)

President

7th December, 2012

ACT No.

No. XXV

XXVI of of 2012

ACT

An ACT

to amend

the the

Education

Act.

AN ACT

to amend

Data

Protection

Act, Cap. 440.

BE ENACTED

IT ENACTED

by President,

the President,

by and

with with

the the

advice

BE IT

by the

by and

advice

and

and consent

of the of House

of Representatives,

in this Parliament

present

consent

of the House

Representatives,

in this present

Parliament

assembled,

and by the

authority

of the

same, as follows: -

assembled,

and

by the authority

of the

same as

follows:-

1. The

The title

short

title Act

of is this

Act is the

Data Protection

of this

the Education

(Amendment)

Act, Short Title.

(Amendment) Act, 2012, and this Act shall be read and construed as

2012 and it shall be read and construed as one with the Education Cap. 327.

one with the Data Protection Act, hereinafter referred to as "the

Act, hereinafter in this part referred to as “the principal Act”.

principal Act".

2. Immediately

Article 2 of after

the article

72 Act

of the shall

principal

Act there as Addition of new

principal

be amended

shall be added the following new article

article to the principal

follows

Act.

72A. The

University

shall be a "blocking",

body corporate

(a)

immediately

before

the definition

there

“Legal Personality

of the University.

having

a distinct

legal

personality and shall be

shall be added

the following

new

definition

capable, subject to the provisions of this Act, of

" "administrative

fine" means

a fine which

may

be

entering

into contracts,

of acquiring,

holding

and

determined

disposing of any kind of property for the purposes as

and

imposed

by

the

Commissioner,

prescribed

in the

Third Schedule";

of its

functions,

of suing and being sued, and of

doing all such things and entering into all such

(b) immediately after the definition "controller of

transactions as are incidental or conducive to the

personal data", there shall be added the following new

definition: exercise or performance of its functions under this

Act.”.

" "court penalty" means a penalty which is

processing of personal data

VERŻJONI

ELETTRONIKA

which may

be unlawful, as

ordered

by

the

Commissioner,

in

contravention of article 42(1)

2".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 534 of the

6th December, 2012.

M ICHAEL F RENDO

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk to the House of Representatives