UGLE Data Protection Advice Note

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UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER DATA PROTECTION ISSUES ADVICE ON THE NEW DATA PROTECTION LAW (revised) 1

Instructions

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We were asked to advise the United Grand Lodge of England (“UGLE”) how it and other Masonic entities are likely to be affected by the new data protection law. This involves consideration of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“the GDPR”), and of the Data Protection Bill 2017 now before Parliament (“the Bill”). It is intended that they together will supersede the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 1998 as currently in force, based of course upon earlier European legislation.

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This Advice (dated 13 November 2017) has been revised as of 26 January 2018 to correct an error in the original, explained in paragraphs 5.1 below, resulting in a general revision and expansion of paragraph 5, together with some other updating.

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The GDPR

2.1

With effect from 25 May 2018, the earlier European legislation will be superseded by the GDPR, promulgated by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers on 27 April 2016 (2016/679), in accordance with its final Article 99.

2.2

Because 25 May 2018 will inevitably precede expiry of the UK’s 2 years’ ‘Brexit’ notice under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty given on 29 March 2017, on 25 May 2018 the GDPR will become operative in the UK as part of UK law without needing to be re-enacted by way of UK legislation (as well as becoming operative in every other member State of the European Union).

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The GDPR is a lengthy document, but it seems to us that in contradistinction to earlier European legislation on this subject, it is at least in its English language version expressed with comparative clarity and precision.

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