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Lord Bethell's amendment, Schedule 5

Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

Committee stage

Amendment number: 115

Lead member

Lord Bethell
Conservative, Excepted Hereditary
Lords

Decision

Not moved
The amendment was not moved. The House was not invited to take a decision on it (though it may have been debated with other amendments).

Amendment text

Schedule 5, page 209, line 5

at end insert—
“1B. A third country cannot be considered either adequate or capable of providing appropriate safeguards by any authority where there exists no credible means to enforce data subject rights or obtain legal remedies.
1C. For the purposes of paragraph 1A the Secretary of State must have due regard to the view of the Commissioner in determining whether credible means are available in a third country.”

Sponsors

Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate
Conservative
Life peer
Lord Clement-Jones
Liberal Democrat
Life peer