Information Society Services Regulations, 2018

L.N. 179 of 2018

DATA PROTECTION ACT, 2018

(CAP. 586)

Processing of Child’s Personal Data in relation to the Offer of

Information Society Services Regulations, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 33 of the Data

Protection Act, the Minister for Justice, Culture and Local

Government, after consultation with the Information and Data

Protection Commissioner, as the competent authority for the purposes

of the Act, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament

and of the Council of 27 April 2016, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Processing of Child’s

Personal Data in relation to the Offer of Information Society Services

Regulations, 2018.

(1)

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires

"Act" means the Data Protection Act;

"the Regulation" shall have the same meaning as is assigned to

it in article 3 of the Act.

(2) Article 3(2) of the Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to

these regulations.

The scope and purpose of these regulations is to establish

the age of the child when processing personal data in the context of

offering information society services in the absence of consent by the

holder of parental responsibility over the child pursuant to Article 8

of the Regulation.

The processing of personal data of a child in relation to

information society services shall be lawful where the child is thirteen

years of age.

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