How To Register Under The Data Protection Act
If you are unsure if you need to register you can take a quick self assessment via the following link.
How to register under the data protection act. Under the previous situation the data protection act 1998 required businesses that collect personal data to pay an annual registration fee to the ico of 35 small and medium businesses or 500 large businesses and public sector organisations with 250 or more staff and a turnover of at least 25 9m. Monday december 9 2019. Do you still have a register entry under the old data protection act 2002. If your registration number is prefixed with an n and expires between 9 december 2019 1 february 2020. This involves providing details on your organisation the types of data that you process the number of employees in your business and your turnover.
The act largely covers personal data held on computer but it also manual data that is held within a structured filing system. You can complete your data protection act registration via a simple online form which you must fully complete. You might need to add details of your data protection officer during this process too. All 160 register entries remaining under the data protection act 2002 will expire before 1 february 2020.