S.L. 546.3 Art. 1Citation, scope and applicability.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Person

Register and Personal Data Sharing within the Public Sector Regulations.

(2) These regulations shall establish a Person Register and provide for measures, which are necessary for facilitating personal data sharing between public sector bodies.

(3) These regulations provide for establishing a core person details record and authorize links between the core person details record and other records held in other official registers containing equivalent personal data in relation to the same person as well as enable the sharing of personal data within the public sector, under necessary safeguards.

(4) These regulations also provide for:

(a) the establishment of a central record containing personal data to enable the sharing and re-use of data within the public sector, including the assignment of a unique machine readable identifier for every natural person whose details are recorded in an official register through any of the processes listed in the Fourth Schedule; and

(b) the establishment of consistent and standard mechanisms across the public administration to create a single person view in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

(5) The provisions of these regulations shall not apply to the sharing of open data, which is not of a personal nature.