Planning and Development Act 2024
Information sharing | ||
388. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a planning authority, the Commission or the Office of the Planning Regulator may disclose information (including personal data) to a public body, in so far as the disclosure is necessary and proportionate for the performance by the planning authority, the Commission, the Office of the Planning Regulator, or any public body to which the information is disclosed, of its functions under this Act or any other enactment. | ||
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister may prescribe— | ||
(a) such information (including personal data) as may be disclosed, | ||
(b) the purposes for which the information may be disclosed, including specifying the public bodies to whom the information may be disclosed, and | ||
(c) such conditions as the Minister considers appropriate to impose on such disclosure of such information. | ||
(3) In this section— | ||
“personal data” has the meaning it has in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 201621 ; | ||
“public body” has the meaning it has in section 10 of the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019 and shall also include— | ||
(a) the Commission, | ||
(b) the Office of the Planning Regulator, and | ||
(c) a planning authority. | ||