Processing of Personal Data (Telecommunications Sector)

L.N. 522 of 2004

DATA PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 440)

Processing of Personal Data (Telecommunications Sector)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 54 of the Data

Protection Act, the Minister for Investment, Industry and Information

Technology, after consultation with the Data Protection Commissioner,

has made the following regulations

The title of these regulations is the Processing of Personal Citation.

Data (Telecommunications Sector) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

and they shall be read and construed as one with the Processing of

Personal Data (Telecommunications Sector) Regulations, 2003, L.N. 16 of 2003.

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

In regulation 1 of the principal regulations, for the words Amendment of

regulation 1 of the

“Processing of Personal Data (Telecommunications Sector) Regulations, principal

2003” there shall be substituted the words “Processing of Personal Data regulations.

(Electronic Communications Sector) Regulations, 2003”.

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 3 of the principal regulations Amends regulation

3 of the principal

the definitions of “personal data”, “public telecommunications system”, regulations.

“system provider” and “service provider” shall be deleted.

The principal regulations shall be amended as follows>

Amends several

regulations of the

principal

(a) in regulation 3 for the words “Telecommunications

regulations.

(Regulation) Act” there shall be substituted in each case the words

“Electronic Communications (Regulation) Act”<

(b) in regulations 3, 4, 7 and 10 for the words

“telecommunications service” and “telecommunications services”

there shall be substituted in each case the words “electronic

communications service” and “electronic communications

services”<

(c) in regulations 3, 4 and 8 for the words “public

telecommunications system” and “public telecommunications

systems” there shall be substituted in each case the words “public

communications network” and “public communications networks”<

(d) in regulations 3 and 6 for the words “telecommunications

system” and “telecommunications systems” there shall be

substituted in each case the words “electronic communications

network” and “electronic communications networks”<

(e) in regulations 3 and 8 for the words “system” and

“systems” there shall be substituted in each case the words

“network” and “networks”<

(f) for the words “service provider” and “service providers”

wherever they occur in the principal regulations there shall be

substituted in each case the words “undertaking which provides

publicly available electronic communications services” and

“undertakings which provide publicly available electronic

communications”< and

(g) for the words “system provider” and “systems providers”

wherever they occur in the principal regulations there shall be

substituted in each case the words “undertaking which provides a

public communications network” and “undertakings which provide

a public communications network”.

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations for the words

“Minister responsible for telecommunications” there shall be substituted

the words “Minister responsible for communications”.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 8 of the principal regulations

for the words “relating to users or subscribers of public

telecommunications systems or services can be processed” there shall

be substituted the words “relating to users or subscribers of public

communications networks or of publicly available electronic

communications services can be processed”.

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