Part 3: Law enforcement processing Chapter 2: Principles Section 34: Overview and general duty of controller
This section sets out an overview of the six data protection principles governing the processing of personal data for law enforcement purposes. Controllers are under a general duty to comply with the data protection principles (section 34(3)). The principles here are analogous to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh principles provided for in the 1998 Act; the sixth and eight principles of that Act are covered separately under Chapters 3 and 5 of this Part.