__NOTOC__ The Register of data controllers was a United Kingdom database under the control of the UK Information Commissioner's Office mandated by the

Data Protection Act 1998 The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA, c. 29) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to protect personal data stored on Computer, computers or in an organised paper filing system. It enacted provisions from the European Union (EU) Da ...

. The Register of fee payers is the new name of an equivalent register under the Data Protection Act 2018, which implements the European Union's

General Data Protection Regulation The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation on data protection and privacy in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and of human rights law, in partic ...

(GDPR). Registration under both Acts carries a fee, the proceeds of which fund the UK Information Commissioner's Office. Any entry may be inspected by the public at any time at no cost to the enquirer.

Data Protection Act 1998

Under the 1998 Act, the name of the

data controller In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted. ...

was recorded with the purpose(s) for the processing of the data processed by that controller within the meaning of The Act. A data controller may, under some circumstances, be exempt from registration (previously termed ''notification''). When not exempt, failure to notify the Information Commissioner's Office formally before the start of processing data was a strict liability offence for which a prosecution may be brought by the Information Commissioner's Office in the criminal court of the UK. Failure to notify was a criminal offence unless exempt. Exemption from registration does not exempt a data controller from compliance with The Act. Amendments to a data controller's notification could be made at any time, and must have been made before the start of a new processing purpose.

Data Protection Act 2018

Under the 2018 Act, the register is called the Register of fee payers, and the purposes for processing are nor supplied, though other trading names and the name of a Data Protection Officer may be given. The enforcement of the Act by the Information Commissioner's Office is supported by a data protection charge on UK data controllers under the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018. Exemptions from the charge were left broadly the same as for 1998 Act: largely some businesses and non-profits internal core purposes (staff or members, marketing and accounting), household affairs, some public purposes, and non-automated processing. Under the 2018 Act the enforcement regime for registration changed from criminal to civil monetary penalties.

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External links

Register of fee payers
at which any entry may be inspected at no charge. Information privacy Government databases in the United Kingdom Law of the United Kingdom