Part 7: Miscellaneous and general Section 82: Code of practice
Following completion of the data sharing review provided for in section 81 of the Act, a data-sharing code of practice between police and immigration enforcement will be drafted and laid before Parliament. The code of practice will govern the processing of data in relation to potential domestic abuse victims for immigration purposes. In preparing the code, the Secretary of State is required to consult the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, the Information Commissioner and other persons the Secretary of State considers appropriate. The Secretary of State is required to keep the code of practice under review (subsection (2)). A person to whom the code is issued (for example, the police and Immigration Officers) is required to have regard to the code when processing domestic abuse data for immigration purposes (subsection (3)).