Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Act 2018

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Number 5 of 2018

VEHICLE REGISTRATION DATA (AUTOMATED SEARCHING AND EXCHANGE) ACT 2018

CONTENTS

1. Interpretation

2. National contact point in State - vehicle registration data

3. Automated searching of vehicle registration data held in National Vehicle and Driver File

4. Automated searching of vehicle registration data held by designated states

5. Correction of inaccurate data and deletion of incorrectly supplied data

6. Recording of automated supply of personal data

7. Data Protection Commissioner’s functions

8. Application of Data Protection Act 1988

9. Duties of data controllers

10. Authorised officers

11. Short title and commencement

Acts Referred to

Data Protection Act 1988 (No. 25)

Finance Act 1992 (No. 9)

Finance Act 1993 (No. 13)

Finance Act 1994 (No. 13)

Finance Act 2003 (No. 3)

Number 5 of 2018

VEHICLE REGISTRATION DATA (AUTOMATED SEARCHING AND EXCHANGE) ACT 2018

An Act to give effect to Council Decision 2008/615/JHA of 23 June 2008¹ and Council Decision 2008/616/JHA of 23 June 2008² and the Agreement between the European Union and Iceland and Norway on the application of those two Council Decisions insofar as those Council Decisions or that Agreement concern cooperation in relation to automated searching of vehicle registration data and the exchange of such data by or between authorities which are responsible for the prevention, detection and investigation of criminal offences in the State, the other member states of the European Union and Iceland and Norway, and to provide for related matters.

[25th April, 2018]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

¹ OJ No. L 210, 6.8.2008, p. 1

² OJ No. L 210, 6.8.2008, p. 12