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Section 53: Legal professional privilege

Data Protection Act · PART VII: EXEMPTIONS

repealed (no longer in force). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today. The records juris holds show this law as repealed.

53. Legal professional privilege Personal data shall be exempt from— (a) the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Data Protection Principles; and (b) section 23, where the data consist of information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege or confidentiality as between client and law practitioner could be maintained in legal proceedings, including prospective legal proceedings. (S. 53 came into operation on 16 February 2009.)

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