Conferment of Functions Regulations, 2021

L.N. 456 of 2021

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Online Publication of Court Judgments (Data Protection)

Conferment of Functions Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 57 of the Code

of Organization and Civil Procedure, the Minister for Justice and

Governance has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Online Publication of

Court Judgments (Data Protection) Conferment of Functions

Regulations, 2021.

In these regulations any reference to the Director General

(Courts) shall include a reference to the Chief Executive Officer of the

Court Services Agency as authorised to carry out the legal functions of

the Director General (Courts) in terms of articles 3(i) and 6 of the

Court Services (Establishment as an Agency) Order.

The Director General (Courts) shall, subject to the

provisions of the Data Protection Act, have the function and power to

determine whether a person has valid grounds to exercise the right of

erasure of personal data in respect of the content of a court judgment

published online on the website of the Court Services Agency.

The right of erasure of personal data from a court judgment

published on the website of the Court Services Agency shall be given

effect either by anonymising the judgment or any part thereof or by

removing the judgment from the said website.

The Director General (Courts) has the discretion in

deciding upon an application for the exercise of the right of erasure of

personal data from a court judgment published on the website of the

Court Services Agency.

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