S.L. 546.3 · Person Register And Personal Data (S.L. 546.3)
S.L. 546.3 Art. 8Protection of personal data. Cap. 586.
(1) Nothing in these regulations shall prejudice the application of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data
Protection Act.
(2) The Agency and public sector bodies shall ensure that data protection principles, including purpose limitation, data minimisation, limited storage periods and measures to ensure personal data security are applied.
(3) Any public sector body responsible for official registers holding personal data may, following the verification of the identity of the data subject, provide or use a digital platform through which the data subject may exercise control over his personal data; in doing so, the public sector body shall also facilitate the data subject to give and, or to withdraw his consent for any processing of his personal data where applicable, in particular the data elements in the first part of the Second Schedule in a transparent and easy manner. The digital platform provided or used may also be used to enable the data subject to access and view records which contain personal details making reference to his identity.
(4) The extended person details as stored in the first part of the Second Schedule shall be verified by the Agency to ensure its accuracy and correctness and shall only be declared as an official record after such verification is confirmed by the Registrar and the verification information is digitally added to the record details. Such records as stored in the First and Second Schedule shall also be made visible and accessible to the data subject upon request.
(5) The person details as included in First Schedule and in Parts I and II of the Second Schedule may be used by official government processes to enable the automatic filling of the relevant details for the purpose of not requesting information from the data subject which is already held by the public administration:
Provided that the relevant details to be auto-filled are as strictly necessary and in line with the legal obligations emanating from the process.